Sentences with phrase «learning support initiative»

Michigan's integrated behavior and learning support initiative.

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Holding dual roles as CEO and Head of People for a global learning and development company, Insights, I know how important it is to support HR and Talent leaders to garner internal support for the people development initiatives in their own organizations.

The Office of Teaching and Learning supports and promotes several initiatives on both an as - needed and recurring basis.

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.

The Haskayne Learning Technologies Coach supports learning technology initiatives in the faculty through project collaborations and direct, tailored support for instructors, teaching assistants, anLearning Technologies Coach supports learning technology initiatives in the faculty through project collaborations and direct, tailored support for instructors, teaching assistants, anlearning technology initiatives in the faculty through project collaborations and direct, tailored support for instructors, teaching assistants, and staff.

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

The traders learn to acquire and market a commodity that is scarce locally, while the proceeds from selling the vegetable oil enable ACDI / VOCA to support other initiatives, including improving the environmental sustainability of farmlands and helping farmers build and maintain commercial cooperatives.

The Regional Learning and Exchange Platfrom for Facilitating Change Processes towards Food Sovereignty (RLEP) is a three - year series of workshops that «deals with acquiring or deepening concepts... of participatory methods for facilitation, analysis and dialogue, values and skills to support grassroots initiatives and movement building in the frame of food sovereignty.»

However, lessons were learned from these early programmes and in 2004, the Texas Fragile Families initiative reported an increase in child support orders / paternity establishment among its participants (with a «dose» effect — the longer the young father was involved in the programme, the more likely he was to establish paternity / pay child support); and employment rates up from 50 % at the start of the programme to almost 70 % at six months and 80 % at one year (Romo et al, 2004).

The Education Enrichment Fund (EEF) Advisory Committee invites applications for mini-grants of up to $ 1,000 to support initiatives that enrich student learning, instructional programs and learning tools, encourage innovative professional development, and promote the standard of excellence in the Niskayuna Central School District.

Cuomo and Miner have had their political differences in the past, but Miner spokesman Alexander Marion said «as she does before supporting any policy initiative, the mayor wanted to learn more about all sides of the issue.»

The City Council declined to allocate funding for the Positive Learning Collaborative, a joint initiative of the union and the DOE that supports schools in creating a positive learning enviLearning Collaborative, a joint initiative of the union and the DOE that supports schools in creating a positive learning envilearning environment.

More than 800 UFT members boarded buses headed for Albany at dawn on March 27 to lobby state lawmakers for more public school funding, charter school accountability, an extended and enhanced millionaire's tax, support for Community Learning Schools and other important education initiatives.

Tea party groups have suddenly begun pressuring Republican state lawmakers to reassess their support for the bipartisan initiative on Common Core Learning Standards backed by President Obama.

I attended the daylong «National Convocation on Revitalizing the University - Industry - Government Partnership in Support of Research in Science, Engineering, and Medicine» in hopes of learning about initiatives to help students and postdocs who are preparing to leave academe and find careers in those other, unfamiliar sectors.

Substance abuse initiatives such as group therapy can offer support by encouraging homeless youth to share their experiences, learn positive coping strategies, and build healthy social networks.

This impetus to improve the higher learning institutes is one slice of a pie composed of three federal initiatives, which will support research and development, student funding, and university infrastructure.

This will include the formation of a collaborative learning network to identify examples of good practice and support local champions and wellbeing initiatives.

Currently, I work in the Office of Nursing Research, directing our strategic initiatives (i.e., mock reviews, lunch & learns, research dissemination) to support faculty, students and fellows in their research endeavors.

A learning approach will also be needed, that supports the development of new institutional capacities and that links different levels of governance in which individual small scale initiatives are nested.

To learn more about ways you can support these initiatives, please contact Laila Rashid at [email protected] or 773.702.6565.

Learn more about donor support, new clinical, research, and training initiatives, philanthropic events and opportunities, and more.

For two years running, the Dulux Smarter Spaces initiative has been championing a movement to improve education environments, supporting schools to achieve better learning outcomes through the power of effective use of colour and design.

The evidence so far — mainly the career academy evaluations and a recent study (download) on math - enriched CTE — provides strong support for continued expansion of career academies, and for extension of the CTE college - and - career approach through efforts such as HSTW, programs of study that connect secondary and postsecondary education, and the Linked Learning initiative of the James Irvine Foundation.

Even if your community is progressive enough to think it's worth educating girls, even if your family supports your desire to learn, even if you can find the money, or get sponsored by African Initiatives, you may well face a learning environment that is hostile.

Consider which of the steps on the six - step learning journey your new tool will support and whether that step is important for your context and initiatives.

«I believe that without informed leadership, most technology initiatives are fragmented and lack cohesion,» said Langlie, Online Teaching / Learning Support at New York's Hudson Valley Community College.

There's a growing smorgasbord of initiatives and resources beyond the classroom supporting the push to improve STEM learning outcomes, so finding one to fit your students» needs at any given moment in time can feel a little overwhelming.

But not everyone thrives in a self - directed environment, at least not at first, said Andrew Calkins, deputy director of the Next Generation Learning Challenges initiative at Educause, which supports learning - technology innoLearning Challenges initiative at Educause, which supports learning - technology innolearning - technology innovations.

Since leaders are responsible for carrying out training initiatives, their support and involvement in creating a learning environment is necessary.

Support community - building initiatives (such as schoolwide projects and assemblies), and adult practices (such as caring, respect, and engagement in learning), that foster a positive learning environment.

Ohio did just that with its Straight A innovation fund, dedicating $ 280 million in grants from fiscal 2014 to 2017 to local educators, supporting several digital and personalized learning initiatives.

Through the Outreach strand, the larger focus of the initiative, researchers develop and support informative and interactive educational experiences which vary in length and time commitment involved as well as those that are designed to meet the needs of different audiences with the ISV network — those new to PZ ideas, those familiar with some PZ frameworks who want to extend their learning to other frameworks and tools, and those with a long history of using certain frameworks who want to deepen and push their practice in new ways.

Building on a multi-year relationship between Project Zero (PZ) and ISV, the PZ Connect initiative involves exploration of mechanisms for supporting educators remotely, through online and blended structures, (the Outreach strand) as well as the investigation of fundamental problems in teaching and learning through PZ frameworks (the Development strand).

The research findings will be used to develop educational outreach initiatives, distributed widely, to support other formal and informal learning institutions in their use of digital badges to support STEM learning.

Consider which of the steps on the 6 - step learning journey your new tool will support and whether that step is important for your context and initiatives.

For each learning initiative we design, we need to think broadly about not only the event we're designing, but the before and after support as well.

The four year initiative has supported children from 125 schools across the South West of England to experience the benefits of the natural environment by empowering teachers to use the outdoors to support everyday learning.

Typically, there would also be associated costs of the supporting delivery (Learning Management System, Administrative cost of managing the initiative, and other related infrastructure required for delivery).

Fay added: «We would like to see local authorities monitor and quantify the levels of road safety knowledge gained from our initiative, and we would like to offer pupils other Conies learning aids as well as programmes to support them travelling in safety to and from school by car, bus or bicycle.»

Besides engaging learning designs, we have successfully used Performance Support Tools in innovative design formats to supplement and complement several compliance initiatives globally.

Digging into the reasons why an online learning initiative fails, the two main culprits are Learners» apathy towards learning and Lack of Organizational support.

The award included a $ 500,000 grant, which he has dedicated to the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation to support and promote a culture of innovation; entrepreneurship through course design and redesign; development of unique classroom learning environments that support active learning, team - based learning, and entrepreneurial skill development; lab - and project - based capstone courses; faculty fellowships; and peer - learning initiatives.

Do you need help with Response to Intervention (RTI), streamlining data, transitioning to new standards, support for a blended - learning initiative, a better way to communicate with parents about student growth?

He organizes and supports a group of state education leaders called Chiefs for Change; and, with former West Virginia governor Bob Wise, he's pressing another initiative, Digital Learning Now!

Nigel Smith, Head of Content, FutureLearn, said: «We're very proud to be working with the University of Lancaster on this initiative; we're aware that dyslexic students are often exempted from studying languages, so we're delighted to be able to support teachers to be able to cater for individuals with these learning difficulties.

Currently the Paul Hamlyn Foundation has a special initiative called Learning Away, which is a # 2.25 m project that aims to support schools in significantly enhancing young people's learning, achievement and well - being by using innovative residential experiences as an integral part of the curLearning Away, which is a # 2.25 m project that aims to support schools in significantly enhancing young people's learning, achievement and well - being by using innovative residential experiences as an integral part of the curlearning, achievement and well - being by using innovative residential experiences as an integral part of the curriculum.

West - based Bishop Fleming, the fast - growing Top 40 accountancy firm, is repeating its support for the «Young Enterprise» initiative to help school pupils to learn about business.

NAF cited Schwartz's long history of advocacy for high quality school - to - career programs, especially in his current position cochairing Pathways to Prosperity, a foundation - funded initiative designed to increase public support for the creation of multiple pathways linking work and learning to enable more young people to successfully complete high school and go on to obtain a meaningful postsecondary credential.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) provided supporting funding through a grant to Ada's online learning umbrella, Ada Advance Initiatives.