Sentences with phrase «in local contexts»

Although it's now a hotly debated issue on the national level, states have been dealing with gun rights issues in local contexts for decades.

For example, SEAs can disseminate information about effective programs, and they can train consultants to work with individual districts as they figure out how SECD can be addressed most effectively in their local contexts (Elias & Leverett, 2011; for an example of such a consulting organization, see New Jersey Alliance for Social, Emotional, and Character Development: njasecd.org).

This is what makes the Research Architecture graduates and others of their generation particularly interesting: they are rooting the global coherency of conceptual art strategies in local contexts, offering possible models for the repoliticisation of conceptual art.

Accordingly, «VAMs may have a modest place in teacher evaluation systems, but only as an adjunct to other information [and] used in a context where teachers and principals have genuine autonomy in their decisions about using and interpreting teacher effectiveness estimates [i.e. VAM output] in local contexts» (Haertel, 2013, p. 25).

For now, I see my role as helping people understand their problem and the system that produces it, test possible change ideas as part of their theory of improvement, and fail fast to learn quickly to identify high leverage changes in their local contexts that are actually moving the needle on student outcomes.

At the same time, Department of Education staff are also working to contextualize the problems schools are facing and provide solutions that work in local contexts.

Others address key local priorities through a focus on clinical practice, such as the STEM HOUSE Undergraduate Clinical Experience in Elementary STEM Education; Project ExCEL: Elementary Science and Engineering in Local Contexts; and the ELLISA Project: English Language and Literacy Integration into Subject Areas.

Within each state, practitioners will have the opportunity to apply improvement science methods, performing rapid - cycle testing in local contexts to deepen the state - level coalition's understanding of potential improvements.

Participants left inspired, more knowledgeable, and more capable of applying a range of lessons and strategies back home in their local contexts.

These flexibilities can not be found in the statutory text, and in the absence of regulations, states may default back to the status quo and take the less risky path by hewing closely to the statute, rather than pushing for more creative solutions that work better in their local contexts.

Instead I hope these conversations of practice return us to the unique image of God our churches were meant to reflect in our local context.

Indeed, the organic missional community in the local context is the local organizing force.

Now their work shifts to fine - tuning their topics, meeting with members of their community to better understand the issue in the local context, and developing projects to share with the public and policy - makers.

Easier to get to, more likely to be free of charge to enter, and they place your date in a local context.

Judging by the Boston area premiere, where the red carpet rolled out for the stars, industry hobnobs and Patriots royalty, the film holds more heft for local viewers, in a local context.

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.

The object offers an insight into the impact of the Reformation in a local context which can be extended to the country as a whole.

From Adelman's field work in Egypt, Dryden - Peterson says, «we learned more about the complexities of implementing a global strategy in a local context.

Co-authors Dr Ani Wierenga and Jo Taylor say the successful programs have all been tailored to match the needs of learners, in a local context.

It also recommends leadership teams take at least two terms to plan, pilot and develop an approach for use in their local context before moving onto the implementation stage.

The 2018 assessment will put a larger emphasis on reading literacy and add global competence as a subject to measure whether students have the skills and attitudes needed «to interact effectively and appropriately with people in different countries and with people of different cultures in their local context,» according to the OECD.

By implication, there is a sense that local districts, as well as principals and teachers, are put in a straightjacket as they struggle to comply with policies that do not always make sense in their local context.

Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC) isn't intended to be fair in the context of what you consider fair, Floyd - that is, whom so ever has the highest grades and test scores combined.

According to the ISBE ESSA Plan, the vision for IL - EMPOWER is, «to allow the lowest performing schools more flexibility to choose the evidence - based improvement strategies that will work best in their local context.

With community buy - in and commitment, we discussed how to hold students to high standards and what competencies would be important to succeed in the local context.

The TLI experience has allowed me to connect with educators across the country to investigate problems at the local and national level, pursue association, instruction, and policy - based competencies, and generate a solution for a challenge in my local context.

We've designed models that put financial sustainably first and can be adapted to work in any local context.

Pet owners look to your practice for real, trusted advice in a local context — so stay authentic!

Organized for MOCA by Associate Curator Rebecca Morse, in collaboration with a curatorial team that includes Director Jeffrey Deitch, Director of Publications Lisa Gabrielle Mark, Curator Alma Ruiz, and Curator Bennett Simpson, the exhibition expands on a collection show originally conceived by Chief Curator Paul Schimmel, that considered the work of Los Angeles artists in a local context, following Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, which presented Los Angeles artists in an international context.

The focus of each section revolves around topics of keynote speakers and our concern as organizers about how this discourse is reflected in a local context.

PAMM and the Guggenheim Foundation both combine a focus on international and transnational artists and cultural movements with a deep interest in local context, and her work at both institutions has re-affirmed Nawi's belief in the crucial role museums play in writing and rethinking histories, and building and contributing to communities through the establishment of public dialogue.

The space was founded in 2012 due to the absence of art market structures in Serbia out of the necessity to increase the visibility of young artists in their local context, and to create a place that is open to all art forms and methods.

In our local context, it's especially interesting to draw out the aspects of Ward's practice that reference his native Jamaica, the politics of immigration, and the search for cultural identity — issues of particular relevance to the city of Miami,» said Diana Nawi, the exhibition's curator and associate curator at PAMM.

The first of these trajectories concerns Starling's interest in art history, particularly the glory years of modernism, which in this instance firmly anchors the exhibition in the local context.

The two Pop artists on show are Keiichi Tanaami (at Tokyo gallery Nanzuka) and Wanda Pimentel (at Anita Schwartz Galeria de Arte, Rio de Janeiro), both of whom Stella - Sawicka describes as legends in their local context but little known globally.

Wilson worked closely with the Utah Museum of Fine Arts to deepen the exhibition in the local context, and create a new conversation engaging the local community.

We have to try and understand these factors in each local context and create adaptive processes keeping the local context in mind.

But what's striking here is that the houses are configured and terraced in a way that promotes a more urban feel, reflecting the studio's design response to the Chinese government's plan to urbanize half of the country's 700 million rural citizens by 2030, but in a local context.

Through the organization's work with more than 150 artisan groups worldwide, they not only ensure that each of the artisans is paid a fair wage in a local context, but since all the products are handmade and from recycled or sustainable materials whenever possible, World of Good also minimizes their impact on the environment as well.From now through March 31, 2009, TreeHugger readers will receive 25 % off the entire Original Good line (including sale items!).

Each thermometer stands on its own and can only be normalized in its local context.

Not exact matches

One of the biggest risks I encountered was not having enough local knowledge to really understand the context of what was happening in the country.

But embassy and provincial officials specializing in economic development are better placed to meet with entrepreneurs and understand their local context than investors half a world away.

Because of the challenges for international entrepreneurs working in Chinese markets, CEIBS recommends finding a local co-founder, «somebody who can provide you with the access to local resources, who can provide you with a deep understanding of the local contexts, who can help you overcome language barriers,» Velamuri says.

«But I will definitely miss what the promise of Facebook used to be — a way to connect to community in a very global and local context.»

Entrepreneurs exist in the context of their particular geography — be that their local, national, or even supranational economy and society.

Based on a global declaration signed in 2015 by investors at the Paris COP21 UN Climate Conference, the Brazilian Statement adds local context, with input from market participants, including fund managers, insurance companies and pension funds.

The AIDS pandemic in Africa may be a generic social issue for a U.S. retailer like Home Depot, a value chain impact for a pharmaceutical company like GlaxoSmithKline, and a competitive context issue for a mining company like Anglo American that depends on local labor in Africa for its operations.

Property rights and government takings have evolved with both real costs and benefits, e.g. Kelo allowing economic development as a legitimate «public use» v. the various cases finding in favor of property owners in the context of local government mandated dedications and exactions.

Finally, the explosion to satellite communications in the eighties matched in the most recent years with fiberoptic switching systems and computer processing of cash, words, images, and data — the internetting of global consciousness — has swept up most human endeavors from local names and habitations into the global context of international trademarks, common credit cards, shared diets, world class athletics, and intercontinental rock concert tours.

in context that GOD created... He can cause it to happen in HIS way... laws of nature did not exist until there was something for it to influence... the writers of the Bible did not believe in flat earth or the sun revolving around the earth... seems to me you cant see figures of speech, but only false stuff... so why don't you tell the weather man at your local TV station to stop saying surinse and sunset eh?