Sentences with phrase «informed by key»

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For example, one might suggest that if the creative inputs follow that broad theological / ontological structure of the Christian faith, integrate the key role models of their faith in the new structure and their inputs can be shown to be informed directly or indirectly by their own «conservative» tradition and the text, the Bible, they could be understood to be in line with Christianity.

Some years ago James Smart observed that one of the reasons the Bible is «strangely silent» in congregations is because pastors are not able to bring a «critical» perspective on Scripture to bear on faith issues.5 With that in mind, I have attempted to address a biblically informed theological reflection to the key issues raised by transition in culture, church, and family.

The cards fit into dads» wallets and prompt them to visit and register with www.dad.info — a key information resource, developed by Dad Info in partnership with the Fatherhood Institute, which aims to inform, educate and engage with dads in a style and tone that suits them.

Like the other Dad Cards, all the cards also prompt fathers to visit and register with www.dad.info — a key information resource developed by Dad Info in partnership with the Fatherhood Institute, which aims to inform, educate and engage with dads in a style and tone that suits them.

Over-intervention in maternity care was addressed by experts including the Home Birth Summit's Saraswathi Vedam at a recent panel held by the Wilson Center, the nation's key non-partisan policy forum for tackling global issues through independent research and open dialogue to inform actionable ideas for the policy community.

Hopefully you'll never have an issue, but by registering you'll receive key safety communications (and nothing else — like marketing messages) so you can be best informed about the safety of your family.

In the 1960s, John Bowlby, whose work on infant attachment has informed so much of current attachment theory, promoted the idea that children used their blankies as a calming substitute for their key attachment figure, and by the 1970s, even eminent childcare writers like Dr. Spock and Penelope Leach were actively advocating the introduction of comfort objects to help babies manage times of separation.

e) Re-commit to open government and open data — in the coming years, transparency will be one of the key mechanisms by which the government can explain what it is doing, and ordinary people can feel they are well informed about the changes to come.

Mr. Speaker, the 2018 - 2021 Budget is informed by the President's Coordinated Programme for Economic and Social Development Policies which aims at creating a conducive environment for the private sector to thrive, propel growth and create employment opportunies, especially for the youth.In this regard, Government's policy objectives for the medium term will aim at: • Stabilizing the economy and setting it on a path of sustained, diversified and resilient growth; • Optimizing the key sources of growth in the economy on sustainable basis; • Enhancing a competitive and enabling business environment for private sector - led growth; • Formalizing the informal sector; • Building a strong and resilient economy able to withstand internal and external shocks; • Promoting agro-industrial enterprises as the basis for the «One District, One Factory» initiative; and • Creating entrepreneurial and employment opportunities, especially for the youth.

As a key convener of the private sector, The Buffalo Niagara Partnership supports the Economics of Sustainability series by facilitating conversations on what's practical and possible; informing discussions with data and analysis; and offering engaging workshops and other events.

In addition, Cuomo's office, according to a «law enforcement source,» informed the State Police that Valle had emerged as a key figure in the scandal and therefore could not represent any trooper snared by the investigation or have anything else to do with it.

The key is for the communities most affected by developement to get involved and as informed as possible about decisions being made so that they can show their support or opposition and let their voices be heard.

The three - stage system will keep applicants informed at key points and BASC hopes it will also reduce delays in the licensing process by lessening the workload on the force's firearms licensing team.

The panels are intended to provide local elected officials and candidates a platform to inform voters of their qualifications, legislative ideas and opinions on key issues faced by residents of the borough.

A former PDP Chairman, Okehi Local Government Area, Honourable Siaka Musa, who led a sizeable number of the party supporters into the APC explained that the decision to defect to the ruling party was informed by the desire to key into the viable New Direction Agenda of the present administration.

«A key premise of this commitment is that adaptation planning needs to be informed by a continuing scientific, sound assessment of the impacts of a changing climate and the effectiveness of preparations and response options,» Abbott said.

The findings illuminate the specialized roles played by key members of the vast microbial community living in the human gut, and could inform the development of tailored microbiota transplants to improve intestinal health after antibiotic use or illness.

Clearly informed by IPCC and other scientific studies, considerable progress has been made on the key issues of adaptation, avoided deforestation, technology transfers and a more geographically and sectorally balanced Clean Development Mechanism.

Previous work by the NC3Rs showed that many publications reporting publicly funded animal research from the UK and US lacked key information on how the study was designed, conducted and analysed, which could limit their value in informing future scientific studies and policy.

But NNSA labs like LLNL and LANL have been able to meet this responsibility by partnering on focused experiments to validate complex computer models that inform the judgment of researchers and ultimately the laboratory directors, playing a key role in developing the annual letter to the president regarding the current state of the stockpile.

BETHESDA, MD — By analyzing the types of gut bacteria present around colorectal tumors, researchers have found a way to predict key genetic mutations in the tumors themselves, a method that could eventually inform the development of colorectal cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.

This «mobile society» (Traxler, 2007) informs and is being informed by the changing needs of contemporary adult learners for whom accessibility, flexibility and mobility become key factors for an effective educational solution.

The Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing Survey, led by Dr Philip Riley from the Australian Catholic University, is a key piece of research informing the wider community about the challenges and struggles facing Australian school leaders.

Ms Beth Blackwood, AHISA CEO, said AHISA hoped the panel's deliberations would be informed by four key understandings:

The effect of the Ebac in schools — the use of a metric calculated by awarding points to examination points at GCSE level in five key «academic» subjects in order to provide data to inform the creation of school league tables, has massively reduced the overall GCSE entry.

Elizabeth Green, author and editor - in - chief of Chalkbeat, toured schools in Japan, and she, too, embraced the idea that the key to better teaching could be informed by observing classrooms abroad.

Our understanding was greatly informed by talking with key observers in 2013 and again in 2015, including principals, current and former district staffers, advocacy groups, and civic leaders, whose insights are reflected below.

A key role that teachers have once they are informed that a divorce is taking place (which is done either informally by telling the class teacher or by arranging a visit to the head teacher) is telling the right staff so they can maximise support to that child.

By addressing these key issues, resources from Rise Above for Schools support the important role PSHE education plays in helping young people to make positive, informed choices throughout their lives.

This Informed Educator examines research - proven strategies for implementing and sustaining school improvement by looking at the key elements of the process, enabling conditions for improvement, issues of school culture, and implementation.

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 21 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 77 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (7 sheets) * Homework project (7 tasks) that includes both reading and writing skills * End - of - unit reading / writing exam * End - of - unit exam mark scheme (suitable for KS3 Levels 4 - 7, with GCSE 1 - 9 conversion) Unit's lessons include: * Contexts match - up * Exploring working class vs. middle class stereotypes * Shared reading and discussion of the whole play * Creating theatre publicity posters * In - depth analysis of key scnes (Act 1 Scene 1; Act 2 Scene 1; Act 2 Scene 5) * Writing to describe - script to prose * Features of writing to inform and explain * AfL - improving a sample application letter * Role play - creating and performing an extra scene for the play * Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level) * SPaG starter activities * Crosswords * Huge 60 - question revision quiz * End - of - unit reading exam (GCSE English Language / Literature style) * End - of - unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style) * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportunities

This report serves as a guide and framework to early childhood policymakers considering formative assessment, outlining issues for consideration in implementing formative assessment.This guide provides a practical roadmap for decision - makers by offering several key questions to consider in the process of selecting, supporting, and using data to inform and improve instruction.

The framework for our overall project also points to the mostly indirect influence of principals «actions on students and on student learning.223 Such actions are mediated, for example, by school conditions such as academic press, 224 with significant consequences for teaching and learning and for powerful features of classroom practice such as teachers «uses of instructional time.225 Evidence - informed decision making by principals, guided by this understanding of principals «work, includes having and using a broad array of evidence about many things: key features of their school «s external context; the status of school and classroom conditions mediating leaders «own leadership practices; and the status of their students «learning.

On the personal knowledge development level, Hillman says principal training in interactive read - alouds, writing practices, guided reading, and similar skills, which are offered by the Literacy Collaborative and other organizations, are key to helping school leaders make informed assessments of literacy instruction in their schools.

Districts should be key drivers within comprehensive accountability systems by supporting continuous improvement, tracking additional measures of school quality and student success, using these measures to inform local decisions about resources and supports, and serving as laboratories of innovation for the state;

The Mentoring Effect: Young People's Perspectives on the Outcomes and Availability of Mentoring The Mentoring Effect is a compelling report informed by the first - ever nationally representative survey of young people on the topic of both informal and formal mentoring, as well as a literature and landscape review and insights from a variety of key leaders in business, philanthropy, government, and education.

Data from student test scores should be used by schools to move students to mastery and a deep conceptual understanding of key concepts as well as to inform instruction, target remediation, and to focus review efforts.

This brief was informed by a state scan conducted by AYPF of approaches to alternative education before the implementation of ESSA, and the webinar shared key findings from this scan.

When Georgia begins requiring edTPA for teacher certification in 2015 - 16, it will be the final phase of an implementation process marked by small steps to help educators learn more about performance assessment and then bigger steps to include, inform, and support key audiences.

SIS (school information systems) provide standardized test results to SIF (school information frameworks) which provide its data to state's and districts» longitudinal data systems that inform key decision makers and as a result the rating of schools and teachers is associated with students» performance on assessments provided by PARCC and SBAC.

This guide provides a practical roadmap for decision - makers by offering several key questions to consider in the process of selecting, supporting, and using data to inform and improve instruction.

Informed by the goals of social studies education as well as the research literature, an NCSS task force identified five key characteristics of ideal social studies teaching and learning.

Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy The Rennie Center conducts independent research to promote public discourse on educational improvement and inform policy discussions by key decision makers and opinion leaders.

Informing Equity, an Education Resource Strategies (ERS) study commissioned by the Oakland Achieves Partnership, examines data for the 2014 - 15 school year from district - run and charter schools in Oakland across three key dimensions: student need, resource levels, and resource use.

This third brief in a four - part series, outlines the third element of performance management «Collection and Use of Data», to examine how Delaware and Hawaii are pursuing performance management of their key education reforms by establishing and implementing routines and processes for collecting, analyzing and monitoring data, including leading and lagging indicators, to inform continuous improvement, provide feedback and make decisions.

Informing Equity, an ERS study commissioned by the Oakland Achieves Partnership, examines data for the 2014 - 15 school year from district - run and charter schools in Oakland across three key dimensions: student need, resource levels, and resource use.

The unit's design is clearly informed by that of the Kindle 2, sporting a white finish, a keyboard at the bottom, and navigation keys and a five - way joystick at the right.

No game that has been in Early Access for several years before finally getting a proper should greet me with a polite note in the options menu informing me that the key rebinding labels don't work properly and that may need to alter them by going into the game's files.

There are no prompts to inform players how to plant / defuse bombs (you use the «F» key, by the way) and there is no explanation as to how the cards system works so you have to find your feet quickly when playing these matches.

This strong sense of exploration has always been key to his work, informing not only his technique but also his broad choice of source material, which ranges from tourist postcards of London to theoretical texts by Susan Sontag and Sigmund Freud, the score of Parsifal, and the Qur» an.