Sentences with phrase «improving outcomes for»

These findings are the result of a very specific, inexpensive, and simple intervention that can be a potent strategy for improving outcomes for students at risk of delayed graduation or drop - out.

Over the past three years, despite extensive scrutiny and external challenge, Ian has focussed on reforming the organisation and improving the outcomes for the 35,000 children in our schools.

Participants have committed to significantly improving outcomes for academically underprepared students to ensure they succeed in college by strengthening instruction, using technology, better supporting students in remediation, and reducing the need for remediation.

The Commissioner is committed to improving outcomes for all students across our state.

«Through the Special Education Recognition Award, we will reward schools that are truly successful in improving outcomes for some of our most vulnerable students, and to identify innovative and successful practices to share with all of our schools,» said Acting Commissioner Cerf.

The Whole School SEND Consortium is a coalition committed to improving outcomes for children and young people with SEND by better scaling and embedding what we already know works.

Improving outcomes for students is a family affair for Patricia Spradley and Tracy Hill.

In this program, a group of experienced primary school teachers have become practitioner researchers, focusing on strengthening their practice and improving outcomes for students.

It will support faculty and students who care deeply about improving outcomes for very young children, and will become an essential source at the university and across the country for scholarship, partnership, and professional learning.»

School leaders play a crucial role in improving outcomes for students and the success of a school community.

'16 (pictured, left), realized she was not achieving her mission for improving outcomes for black and brown children.

«Rather than prescribing a particular way of doing it, let us ask them to provide evidence that the homework policy the school is adopting is improving the outcomes for kids.»

[Families are] therefore very powerful sources of improving outcomes for kids.»

There is an expectation that individual activities (e.g. one - off training sessions, individual meetings) are threaded together in a logical way to create programmes which have an explicit focus on improving outcomes for students.

While education represents a fraction of that spent on medical research, this is a massive waste if the findings do not translate into improving outcomes for learners.

In response to these findings, Impetus PEF claims that improving post-16 provision is vital to provide a «level playing field» for all young people to succeed and has launched a year long campaign to explore education and training provision for 16 - 19 year olds, with a specific focus on improving outcomes for disadvantaged young people.

«Those who know me will realise that I am passionate about improving outcomes for children from our most disadvantaged communities and my comments were made in this context.»

Fryer, the Henry Lee Professor in the Department of Economics, is a bold researcher who has focused his work on race and education, testing theories and evaluating policies aimed at expanding educational opportunity and improving outcomes for disadvantaged students.

If we are going to judge schools it should be based on their record of improving outcomes for students.

This is not new, but I saw it in a whole new light this year: teacher development is critical to improving outcomes for students.

However, to make sure that the academies programme realises its goal of improving outcomes for disadvantaged children, the report is urging the government, and the national and regional schools commissioners, to do more to create mechanisms that spread good practice from the best academy chains to the rest.

He has dedicated his career to improving education and has demonstrated a strong commitment to increasing opportunities and improving outcomes for all students.

The best part was witnessing the power and promise of a group of individuals unapologetically focused on improving outcomes for students — particularly in our most under - resourced communities.

More specifically, the proposed program will focus on framing neuroscience research for use by district and region - level decision makers who are dedicated to improving outcomes for young children.

The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.

Indeed, our review findings would suggest that if professional development is explicitly focused on improving an observed teacher practice instead of being focused explicitly on addressing a pupil need, then it is less likely to be effective at improving outcomes for students.

Among the education topics he discusses are the black - white achievement gap, education reform strategies, improving outcomes for African American students, and affirmative action in higher education.

«This is about looking for the institutions that support the children who need it most, and improving outcomes for those children.»

They are schools that are dramatically improving outcomes for children of all backgrounds.

The YouGov survey found that 43 per cent of the teachers questioned believed the premium had been effective in improving outcomes for poor pupils, while 19 per cent of respondents said they did not know.

Our coalition is dedicated to improving outcomes for foster youth and their families.

She is the director of the Human Rights Project at Maryland Legal Aid where she works toward improving outcomes for the poor in...

Crnic Grand Challenge Grant recipients are chosen based on the strength of their proposed science and the likelihood such science will lead to improving outcomes for people with Down syndrome.

«The Foundation is pleased to honor Dr. Whyte, who is internationally known for his role in advancing rehabilitation strategies that are improving outcomes for people with severe brain injury,» said Rodger DeRose, president and chief executive officer of Kessler Foundation.

We look forward to further study of our Zika mRNA vaccine to prevent Zika infections, with the ultimate goal of improving outcomes for mothers, their children, and families in the U.S. and globally.»

A University of Liverpool led international clinical trial has found an anti-impotence drug to be ineffective at improving outcomes for pregnancies complicated by fetal growth restriction.

«We are excited about the possibilities for improving outcomes for those in treatment, and potential applications for other cancers.»

«This suggests that altering transplantation dose could be a tool for improving outcomes for patients — promoting bone marrow engraftment, reducing the risk of infection and ultimately saving lives.»

As the main findings concern women who have never married, improved financial stability increases the bargaining power of women entering marriage, thus reducing domestic abuse and divorce, while improving outcomes for children.

This work defines an element, often missing from health policy discussions, in improving outcomes for this important population and underscores the importance of social factors in affecting health outcomes both for people at risk of becoming infected with HIV and for those living with HIV or AIDS, said the researchers.

«New study holds hope for improving outcomes for children exposed to methamphetamine: Supportive home environment may reduce behavioral, emotional issues.»

«Most of our efforts to prevent intimate partner violence have focused on screening and improving outcomes for women who are victims, because their health and well - being is our priority.

The five year disease - free and overall survival rates for patients with high - risk malignant germ cell tumours remains less than 50 %, and so accurate diagnosis and monitoring is crucial to improving outcomes for patients.

Our mission then is to make this a reality as soon as possible, in order to start improving outcomes for young people.»

Evaluations have demonstrated that these programs maintain public safety while improving outcomes for participants.

As a member of the Board of Regents My Brothers Keeper Blue Ribbon Panel on improving outcomes for boys and young men of color, we highlighted the need for more advanced programing in a report issued late last year,» said Assemblyman Mosley.

Her current focus is on improving outcomes for infants in the NICU through developmental assessment and interventions, and on developing an interdisciplinary approach to initiating and progressing breast and bottle feeding.

The complete blindness that you demonstrate to these two issues just makes me think that you are more interested in finding evidence that supports homebirth as a choice than in actually improving outcomes for woman and children during childbirth.

Geradine is a former President and currently the Executive Director of Midwives Alliance of North America, a professional organization that promotes excellence in midwifery and is dedicated to unifying and strengthening the profession, thereby increasing access to quality healthcare and improving outcomes for women, babies and their families.

As Randy says, it isn't about making the dads feel good (though that would be a side benefit), but rather improving outcomes for kids because they have the benefit of more involved fathers.