Sentences with phrase «includes public engagement»

The evening includes public engagement by participating artists Demian DinéYazhi» and JESS X SNOW, a film screening of AFTER EARTH directed by JESS X SNOW, and a performance of 1000 Tiny Mirrors, a collaborative experimental trans * / queer rock project presented by Frexy.

Our breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health.

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Anne Sheehan is the Director of Corporate Governance for the California State Teachers» Retirement System (CalSTRS), the largest teacher's public pension fund in the USA, where she is responsible for overseeing all corporate governance activities for the fund including proxy voting, company engagements and managing $ 4 billion placed with activists managers and sustainability managers.

Enlightened Power was successfully launched into the public's consciousness and created many exciting opportunities including speaking engagements, conferences and additional publishing opportunities for several of the authors.

Don's achievements at IPI over the past five years include: the national Investor Education in Your WorkPlace ® program; the DASH for the STASH program, The 2015 Millennials: Debt and Retirement Saving / Investing Survey, and the 2015 When I'm 65 public television documentary and national engagement program.

Public servants, politicians from multiple levels of government and open government enthusiasts gathered Thursday to talk about citizen engagement and how to include the public in the policymaking prPublic servants, politicians from multiple levels of government and open government enthusiasts gathered Thursday to talk about citizen engagement and how to include the public in the policymaking prpublic in the policymaking process.

He's in demand for public speaking engagements including hosting corporate tastings and dinners, and has given many wine appreciation courses.

Think - tank Activities SOAAN will progress in stepwise fashion in order to develop the outputs mentioned above: Step 1) Review existing science and actions: An overview or survey of the existing science on the topic, including a discussion of the limitations of scope, empirical data, and their reliability and applicability to the organic sector's understanding of best practice; Step 2) Actors engagements: Identification in both public and private sectors of the institutions and individuals active on the topic and their respective roles and networks, so that SOAAN and the organic sector then moves to engage them, along with think tanking activities; Step 3) Think tank: Development of the model, the strategy and promotional / advocacy tools through think tank efforts including piloting cases to gain experience and showcase practicability; Step 4) Synthesis: Publication of the results, tools and recommendations.

Their backgrounds include urban planning, tenant engagement, public authority law and accessing federal funding.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office also said the hefty suggestion stemmed from «the many egregious aspects of the defendant's crimes — including Silver's role as a high - level public official, his engagement in multiple corrupt schemes, the millions of dollars in bribe money Silver took in, and his laundering of his crime proceeds.»

Lady Thatcher has suffered a number of health problems over the last few years, including a series of minor strokes which led her to cancel public speaking engagements.

These include: · Restricting trade hours of on - licence venues to limit the availability of alcohol in the early hours of the morning · Enhancing community involvement, better facilitating the engagement of local residents with licensing systems · Adding / prioritising public health and / or harm minimisation objectives in alcohol legislation · Restricting the sales of high risk products in areas of concern; and · Deprioritising government support for industry voluntary schemes in place of policies supported by evidence.

In Buffalo, Mayor Byron Brown made new appointments to the city's housing authority and their backgrounds include urban planning, tenant engagement, public authority law and accessing federal funding.

Partners in the BES include the Electoral Commission, to improve the public understanding of representation, engagement, and voter registration.

The organizations and agencies listed in the Directory offer a wide variety of programs and services, including ESL and civics classes, citizenship assistance and legal advice, public benefits and health insurance access, employment training and job placement, youth activities and senior centers, and immigrant rights and civic engagement projects.

Additional benefits of the workshops include fostering a community for public engagement within an institution.

Leshner listed a number of important lessons for science as it moves toward a more constructive public engagement, including:

This scale asks scientists to reflect on a specific public engagement activity and rate their agreement with six statements, including «The activity helped participants connect science to their everyday lives» and «The activity provided me with an opportunity to learn from the broader community.»

In the long - term, this effort may expand to include collecting data from across these surveys to draw conclusions about public engagement with science more broadly.

The program is also producing an array of online resources for public engagement, including video archives of academic symposia, additional examples of science engagement projects with commentary, and a web - only version of the workshop.

As part of the project, DoSER is producing a series of booklets that explore the social context for science engagement and provide an overview of best science communication practices, including for engagement with religious publics, drawing on established guidelines and the latest peer - reviewed research.

This project helps scientists develop strategies and skillsets for constructive and culturally competent public science engagement, including on topics that intersect with faith and religion.

The Public Engagement with Science group has more than 600 members including scientists, public engagement researchers, and public engagement practitioners who hold weekly online discussions, workshops at conferences, and even a virtual poster sePublic Engagement with Science group has more than 600 members including scientists, public engagement researchers, and public engagement practitioners who hold weekly online discussions, workshops at conferences, and even a virtual poster sepublic engagement researchers, and public engagement practitioners who hold weekly online discussions, workshops at conferences, and even a virtual poster sepublic engagement practitioners who hold weekly online discussions, workshops at conferences, and even a virtual poster session.

Institutional change focuses on building understanding about, capacity for and support of public engagement within the various institutions researchers are affiliated with, including universities, government agencies, professional societies and private industry.

Such passion for knowledge requires support for science and its institutions, and continual public engagement with science, including interactions with scientists, whom, she said, devote their lives to discovery, evidence - based explanations and proposing solutions to the challenges facing society.

In training, we covered a range of topics in the training including quite basic sessions on public engagement and policy work through to discussions about defining the goal and purpose of your activity and the audience you will work with and considering this at the core of any activity you plan.

The report recommends that the governing authorities, including research institutions, funders, and regulators, develop and maintain clear policies and mechanisms for how public engagement will factor into research, ecological risk assessments, and public policy decisions about gene drives.

These measures reflect public outreach and engagement, an area that funders and institutions now include in academic performance evaluations.

In August, the agency solicited new bids for the project, due next month, that explicitly require public engagement from the outset, including staff that will remain on site day to day to hear local concerns.

These include: transparency through timely public sharing of information; public engagement; partnership with other regulatory authorities within and outside the US; maximizing data quality; and circumscribed use of MRT; and long - term follow - up of children born as a result of MRT.

Ed's research currently focuses on public understanding of — and engagement in — climate change, including its risks and mitigation and adaptation options.

SOFIA mission public engagement & public outreach efforts, including maintaining the Science Center website and producing social media output, are jointly managed & implemented by SOFIA staff employed by USRA, the SETI Institute, and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.SOFIA is a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft that carries a telescope with an effective diameter of 100 inches (2.5 meters) at altitudes up to 45,000 feet (14 km), above the obscuring layer of water vapor in Earth's atmosphere.

Recent approaches include development of augmented reality applications (Augmented Reality apps for phones and tablets) for our skeletal public engagement activities, which help to demonstrate our research through interactive engagement.

In addition, Dr. Pompa's speaking engagements on health include audiences of international presidents and delegates, as well as on some of the largest natural health stages in the country for both public and practitioners along side health experts such as Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. David Kennedy, Dr. Boyd Haley, Dr. Carl McMillan, Dr. Gerry Curatola, David Wolfe and Mercury Free advocate Robert F. Kennedy Junior.

In addition, several things that should be obvious inclusions — Paramount's 1924 silent film Peter Pan (long in the public domain and included on France's release), trailers (still not a single one from any of the film's many engagements!)

And, don't miss Ed Week «s special commentary package coming out next week (both in print and online) on the RHSU rankings — including a lively discussion of what happens when scholarly engagement in public debate ceases to be a good thing, how we can tell, and what can be done about it.

The Askwith Forum is a series of public lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education featuring a wide range of topics, including early childhood, civic and moral engagement, expanded learning models, educating for human rights, and international education among others.

A detour to the included DVD is instructive: in this Harlem - based, lottery - selected public charter school, we see a 1st - grade classroom that challenges any in the country for the intellectual engagement of its students without any reliance on the regimented, direct instruction that the clichéd objections imagine dominate all successful charter schools.

All three districts modeled community engagement, partnering, and a willingness to listen to public concerns, and all made efforts to include families and communities in district - level committees.

IEL and its Coalition for Community Schools are working to ensure key principles are embedded in reauthorization, including incentives for public - private partnerships, success indicators to report on beyond basic achievement, stronger definitions of family and community engagement, and greater consultation with school stakeholders.

The intention of the ODEO grant was not only to fund an extended period of public engagement and consultation, but allow applicants with pre-existing integration efforts to implement pre-implementation activities including pilot activities in target schools.

AASA Executive Director Daniel A. Domenech added, «The public school superintendents we represent are committed to implementing ESSA as intended, including the key element of stakeholder engagement, and to ensuring educational equity and opportunity are the reality for all our nation's public schools and the students they serve.»

After a brief mention from Dunn about the on - going work of Charter Schools Now, the 501 (c)(4), Veronica Garcia, the Vice President of Government and Public Affairs, gave an overview of TCSA's advocacy efforts including city - based regional grassroots coalitions, legislative engagement, parent / advocate trainings, and communications.

Public sector organisations including the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Department for Work & Pensions and the NHS have embraced Agylia to deliver their learning and development programmes — increasing the productivity, efficiency and engagement of their workforce.

Communicate the uniqueness of the Summit Learning Teacher Residency to the market of prospective teachers and leaders through branding opportunities, including the program's website, printed materials, social media, public engagements, networking events, conferences, and job fairs

GPS reaches parents and students in multiple ways, including through its GreatPhillySchools.org website, which provides information in one place on the academics, extracurriculars, performance data, school incidents, and student engagement of Philadelphia's more than 400 public district, public charter, Catholic and private K - 12 schools.

The CPS Arts Education Plan was developed through more than 25 community engagement sessions with key stakeholders including principals, teachers, parents, students, arts and cultural organizations and the general public.

family engagement operates with adequate resources, including public — private partnerships, to ensure meaningful and effective strategies that have the power to impact student learning and achievement.

The links below provide resources for educators, parents, and the public including a chronological outline of the States engagement and adoption process and communication and implementation tools.

Therefore, the Office of the Under Secretary comprises multiple offices, with a broad range of functions and missions, including domestic and international transportation policy development and implementation, economic and legislative analysis, regulatory oversight and public engagement.