Sentences with phrase «improved educational effort»

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The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance was established as a joint effort by Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers in 2003 to manage the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program (SWP), a ground - breaking statewide educational initiative to help wineries and vineyards continuously improve in adopting and implementing sustainable practices.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

Lucky for us, we have a left leaning school board who do support our efforts and who understand that this is an investment they make in our students which pays big dividends in terms of better focus in the classroom and improved educational outcomes.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — In his State of the City address, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said efforts are underway to improve the city's ability to provide services to residents, from elimination of potholes and expansion of Wi - Fi access to increased educational opportunities and incorporation of technology to improve safety.

A state appellate court ruled unanimously on Thursday that New York City must keep open 19 schools it wanted to close for poor performance, blocking one of the Bloomberg administration's signature efforts to improve the educational system.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

As I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, too.

Researchers from NYU Langone's Department of Population Health will evaluate these services so that the NYC Department of Education and other urban school districts can continue to improve on efforts to provide high - quality family - centered educational experiences to all children.

In short, it's an all - out effort to significantly improve one of the weakest — and most despised — aspects of our nation's current educational system.

Program, she examines how TFA regional staff and corps cultures — specifically staff and corps member engagement and inclusion — can catalyze efforts to improve educational outcomes for students in each local context.

But while some witnesses at a two - day oversight hearing told the House Subcommittee on Select Education that research efforts can be improved without changing the structure of the office of educational research and improvement, others called for an overhaul.

Tired of living in the only Southern state without a publicly financed program of early - childhood education, business leaders across Mississippi have launched a three - year pilot effort to improve the educational quality of child - care centers and better prepare children for school.

The new standards, published in the June 7 Federal Register, are part of an ongoing effort to revamp the office of educational research and improvement, the department's major research arm, and to improve the quality of the research that it finances.

To have a deeper understanding of these questions, we need to dissect the current status of the Chinese educational system in such a way that any solutions we come up with our sound and geared towards change and an improved effort by all, for all.

Elaine Weiss writes on how community engagement and family supports in Appalachian schools have been critical in the efforts to improve educational outcomes in rural communities.

By focusing their efforts primarily on improving schools for black and Latino students living in urban communities, has the education reform movement missed another group facing economic challenges and in need of better educational opportunity?

Substantial policy effort has focused on improving the educational opportunities for students in these schools, including the Obama administration's School Improvement Grants (SIG).

Last fall, our regional educational laboratory, REL Northwest, joined with REL Central and REL Pacific to organize a convening of tribal representatives from across the country to examine how our education system can incorporate indigenous language and culture and what research can increase and improve those efforts.

Yes, I think the state is lagging in educational reform efforts and needs to be studying what other states have done and try new approaches to improve student performance.

The effort is spearheaded by the Michigan Higher Education Partnership Council, which includes a unique panel of business, government, college and university leaders who are collaborating to improve educational attainment in Michigan.

KNOWLEDGE BRIEF 13 by Susanna Loeb In an effort to improve educational outcomes, states and districts across the country are collecting value - added measures to assess the quality of their teachers.

Our work with families, strong partnerships with leaders and service providers in immigrant communities, and expertise on legal rights and entitlements place us at the forefront of efforts to improve educational opportunities for these students.

«Dr. José A. Cárdenas dedicated his life to improving educational opportunities for all children, leading decades - long efforts to achieve school finance equity,» said Dr. María «Cuca» Robledo Montecel, IDRA president.

In this role she was responsible for leading a national pilot designed to create thriving regional staff and teacher cultures that would catalyze regional efforts to improve educational outcomes for students.

The foundation maintains an online library of lessons at www.wallacefoundation.org about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening educational leadership to improve student achievement; helping disadvantaged students gain more time for learning through summer learning and an extended school day and year; enhancing out - of - school time opportunities; and building appreciation and demand for the arts.

Leadership skills necessary to influence and support educational efforts to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics.

The Fellowship is a two - year, cohort - based program that identifies innovative leaders in the educational equity movement, facilitates their dynamic growth, and strengthens their collective efforts to dramatically improve public schools for low - income children and communities.

In order to improve rural schools, authors recommend federal policymakers stop promoting private school vouchers as a way to expand educational opportunities in rural areas, and to instead boost educational opportunities in local public schools by increasing efforts to modernize rural classrooms and integrate technology into teaching and learning.

Providence's after - school effort, known as the AfterZone, produced educational benefits for participating students including improved school attendance and attitudes, according to a report released today, one of the first rigorous evaluations of a citywide after - school initiative.

The Urban League, Project GRAD, Centro Hispano and Knox County Schools worked to promote advocacy and engagement efforts generating deeper support for educational equity, opportunity and excellence to improve educational outcomes for underserved students of color in Knox County.

At the same time, the board vowed to intensify efforts toward improving educational opportunities within traditional district schools as a way to discourage more students from moving into charters.

The effort to improve educational standards and make American students more competitive with their international peers was led several years ago by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, with backing from the Gates Foundation.

Finally, this action perpetuates the fundamental belief upon which UCEA was built — the collaborative effort of educational organizations will improve educational leadership and leadership preparation, which in turn will facilitate educational advancement and human progress.

recognized leadership efforts to improve the field, especially the preparation of educational administrators and / or professors of educational administration.

In another, state education leaders are interested in knowing how a statewide grassroots effort they support to improve educational outcomes is doing.

City - based education organizations, or «harbormasters» and others who coordinate efforts to improve education within a city to incubate new school models; work to attract talented entrepreneurs to develop break - the - mold innovations; and build an infrastructure of charter school supports that allow operators to focus more energy spent on innovative educational approaches, not operations.

I hope this piece will be useful in supporting our collective efforts to improve educational performance.

The Advancing Teaching — Improving Learning (ATIL) team's efforts were grounded in the urgent and practical issues of improvement that confront America's educational leaders.

In Ripley's 2013 book, she examined efforts to improve educational achievement in high - performing nations, and followed three U.S. exchange students to Finland, Poland, and South Korea to help tell the story.

Austin ISD would be well - advised to drop its public - relations program and instead redouble its efforts to improve its educational offering to students.

We can put an end to our edu - masochism: If researchers spend more effort on assessing our own states» successes and failures in improving student performance and less on trying to draw lessons from countries with very different social and educational contexts, they are sure to spark a much more productive national educational policy debate than we have had in the past decade.

Phil leads the organization's efforts to grow partnerships nationally so that students across the country can benefit from PowerMyLearning's proven approaches to improving educational outcomes.

Julie oversees Schusterman's efforts to invest in reform efforts within the U.S. towards improving educational outcomes for all students.

We the People of the United States, in Order «to strengthen and improve educational quality and educational opportunity in this Nation's elementary and secondary schools» will act in accordance with the principles and practices that will guide and support our efforts to ensure excellent education for all.

Ultimately, the success and sustainability of efforts to improve educational excellence and equity, particularly with regard to our most vulnerable students and communities, requires robust and thoughtful partnership between and among federal and state and local governmental agencies and a broad variety of community members.

Together, we have called for practical, actionable support to improve educational practice and help with day - to - day efforts to make effective decisions that eliminate institutional racism, promote positive and inclusive learning, and sustain equitable practice.

Before joining Get Schooled, Ms. Groark served as a Senior Program Officer with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, leading its efforts to improve educational outcomes through advocacy and communication work.

School leaders make the greatest impact on the progress and achievement of learners by using their educational expertise and management skills to focus the efforts of everyone in the school on improving the quality of teaching and learning.

This is a significant effort on behalf of the students of Los Angeles, with generous donations from a variety of foundations and individuals committed to improving educational opportunities for those who need it most.

Over-reliance on VAM scores may foster a competitive environment, discouraging collaboration and efforts to improve the educational system as a whole.