Sentences with phrase «initiative piloted this year»

The Project Zero Artist - in - Residence initiative piloted this year offers Arts in Education (AIE) master's students a chance to spend a semester engaged in a Project Zero idea, theme, question, or research project through the creation of an artwork.

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Along with Mayor Patricia Bates, he's helping spearhead a new initiative that will pay the ride - sharing behemoth up to $ 500,000 over the next year as part of a first - in - the - nation pilot program.

The pilot program for the 2015 - 2016 and 2016 - 2017 academic years seeks to support enhanced confidence with technology integration, facilitate the adoption of campus - wide technologies, such as Adobe Connect and Desire2Learn, while also encouraging exploration of learning technology solutions to classroom and department initiatives.

Le Pain Quotidien ran a pilot program in New York City last year certifying 43 of its restaurants as CO2 Neutral, a CO2logic initiative.

In a pilot initiative with the Hansard Society, he has made a video urging 16 to 25 - year - olds to give their experiences of crime and explain why they think young people might break the law.

Calling this «the start of a new tradition - something so obviously a good idea that you wonder why no one has done it before» Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the BHA continued «we are delighted to be able to support the web initiative which has received a very positive response and the schools based pilot of this project where we have put together a free package of materials for classes that has gone out to 5 - 19 year old groups across the world to be trialled and will be launched next year».

Pilot Program Will Address More «At Risk» for Lead Poisoning «Early Detection the Goal of Free Home Inspections» Nearly one hundred inner - city children living «at risk» for lead poisoning can be detected each year as a result of an new initiative which expands free home inspections and educational services in target areas of the City of Utica, Oneida County Executive Antony J. Picente announced today.

Kessler Foundation's two - year Signature Employment Grants fund pilot initiatives, demonstration projects or social ventures that lead to the generation of new ideas to solve the high unemployment and underemployment of individuals with disabilities.

Awarded yearly, Kessler Foundation's two - year Signature Employment Grants fund pilot initiatives, demonstration projects or social ventures that lead to the generation of new ideas to solve the high unemployment and underemployment of individuals with disabilities.

Initially operating as a pilot programme, the initiative will commence by the end of 2017 and cover two full academic years, concluding in the summer of 2020.

This initiative is built on our successful pilot program last year with 35 schools and more than 10,000 students.

We are just finishing our research and evaluation for the programs from our 2013/14 school year and in two of our major initiatives, we are seeing statistically significant gains in Mathematics - it's in Math that these two schools have focused their blended methods on (often we pick a specific subject area to do a small scale pilot).

Now gearing up for its second year, the program here is the first pilot test for a national initiative, known as Worklink, created by the Educational Testing Service.

This year, the board of education voted to require schools to determine how their education plans tie in with their budget, and the collaborative received a grant to pilot that initiative.

Last spring, the school piloted a similar program with reading strategies and a rubric; it will be added to Downtown's schoolwide initiatives this year.

Building on an initiative piloted this school year in Virginia, participating districts could offer students a choice of supplemental educational services, or SES, a year before having to provide the option of transferring to a higher - performing school.

Elsewhere, students participating in the Kansas Reading Initiative — a two - year pilot blended - learning program that provides Lexia Learning's Lexia Reading Core5 at no cost to the participating schools so long as they meet and maintain minimum usage requirements, which cleverly insures some implementation fidelity — saw dramatic gains in the first year of the initiative with roughly 20 % — or 225 — of elementary schools in the state participating.

But the new initiative is the product of a separate online pilot program the district launched last year, which provided online math courses to certain elementary school students.

CSN has piloted new advocacy initiatives during the past year, and is poised for exciting developments under Gomez's leadership.

Spurred by a successful pilot program last year at McPolin Elementary, a public - private partnership at the Park City School District has established an initiative to help out dyslexic youngsters and other students who struggle with reading.

Over the last number of years, a number of initiatives have been piloted with a view to identifying how a structured information process might be developed e.g. meetings with parents who are enrolling their children in primary or post primary schools, or parents who are seeking the establishment of a special class or home tuition for their children.

P. Out of this appropriation, $ 400,000 the first year and $ 400,000 the second year from the general fund is provided to establish a comprehensive pilot initiative to recruit students to major in the fields of mathematics and science to help alleviate the shortage of qualified teachers in these fields.

The initiative is being piloted in partnership with districts in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Mississippi under a three - year, $ 11 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant program.

The five new partners join the Duke Ellington School of the Arts College Summit, a veteran partner of Flamboyan, who has been piloting a family engagement initiative in their college readiness curriculum for the last two years.

North High School adopted restorative practices in 2006 as part of the pilot initiative in Denver Public Schools.Throughout its ten years of implementation, North has moved from a school on turnaround status to the coveted Green School rating, transforming student attendance, student achievement, and other indicators of success.

Last year, Quitman's third through fifth grades piloted the initiative in reading and math, dividing a class into three groups based on ability for a particular skill.

The Love Cats two - year pilot project in Chong Pang is a Cat Welfare Society (CWS) initiative supported by the Member of Parliament for Nee Soon Group Representation Constituency and the involved government agencies.

The coming year will serve as a pilot period for the initiative, after which the Museum will evaluate its success and consider free programs longer - term.

«Folly» quickly grew from a pilot initiative to a highly anticipated competition — 2013 submissions increased by 40 % from the first year — for emerging architects and designers to conceive, design, build, and exhibit original works in the public realm.

In line with initiatives taken by Ontario law schools to support students» mental wellbeing, the Civil Law Section at University of Ottawa started this year a pilot project to tackle first year students» stress and anxiety.

The Victim Focus initiative, which has been tested for the last year under the umbrella of the Victims» Advocate Scheme pilots, will introduce prosecutors to families to produce impact statements.

Codenamed Project Ara, the initiative was initially set to launch as a pilot in Puerto Rico later this year, but it was late last week and early into this week that we learned that Google had delayed the pilot into 2016 and moved it to the United States.

Try to go for meaty, original achievements - for instance, if you were instrumental in devising and piloting a new sales initiative for your firm which proved such a success it was rolled out nationally, then expand on it, as this packs more of a punch than «Responsible for exceeding sales target by 11 % in year one».

Her recommendations include justice reinvestment pilots in Aboriginal communities and consideration of a New Zealand Corrections case - management initiative to cut reoffending by 25 per cent over five years.