Sentences with phrase «local opportunities for change»

Staff writer Joonu Coste addresses proposals by Parkland shooting survivors to end school shootings and presents local opportunities for change.

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Young Carers in Focus (YCiF) is an exciting opportunity for young carers to feel empowered and supported to have a say about their lives and facilitate change at a Local and National level.

The Idea Summit is a fun, celebratory event that features the work of Champions for Change, explores what it means to translate ideas into action, and provides opportunities for community members to network with local experts, citizen planners, funders and other attendees.

This will provide MPs with the opportunity to debate the current lack of protection for pubs, the fact that local communities have so little say over the future of their local, despite clear «moral ownership» of their local pubs - and will also suggest ways in which the planning system can be changed to ensure that local residents have the powers they need to protect their local pubs.

With so many instruments on the Yahtse, researchers have a unique opportunity to monitor changes along the length of the glacier and discover how, for example, local changes in ocean temperature and currents relate to movement further up the glacier.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

The No Child Left Behind Act does indeed have the potential to change education in America by ushering in meaningful accountability, along with greater opportunity and choices for parents and broader flexibility for state and local decisionmakers.

«That's providing the opportunity for opponents of that change in high - stakes testing to use the Common Core and its implementation as a justification for delay,» West says, which is why «there are more and more examples of state and local [teachers» unions] coming out in strong opposition to the Common Core.»

After reviewing the programmatic changes made for ELL students in Nogales, the Court reached the conclusion that «the weight of research suggests these types of local reforms, much more than court imposed funding mandates, lead to improved educational opportunities.»

Preparing for adulthood • Planning for young people's futures • A broad range of education and learning opportunities: Wolf Review • Employment opportunities and support: the role of disability employment advisers • A coordinated transition to adult health services: joint working across all services • Support for independent living Services working together for families • Local authorities and local health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangeLocal authorities and local health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangelocal health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangelocal professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangelocal areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangelocal freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangements

These films were not only an opportunity for students to speak their views about climate change, but also to have those views shared with their local MPs, MSPs and Welsh AMs.

The local industry can take responsibility for changing this trend — by working together to develop innovative approaches, like FXP Festival, we can provide exciting progression opportunities for the young people in our region.»

Confronted with challenges like changing economic needs, local historical perceptions, and teacher retention and financial resource issues, innovative district leaders in rural communities are taking an opportunity to plan for success.

The executive leadership training programs will provide an opportunity for participating state and district teams to work more collaboratively in such areas as leading change and team development, leadership for instructional improvement, methods to accelerate leader performance, addressing stakeholder engagement around critical state and local issues, and sustaining improvements in school and student achievement.

When The Mind Trust, a local nonprofit incubator of educational leadership and innovation, released its «Creating Opportunity Schools» report in December 2011, it outlined in great detail its core position that IPS «is broken» with catastrophic results for students» and would take radical restructuring to achieve needed and lasting change.

A change in local governance, however, will not address a very significant issue that the School District of Philadelphia faces: inadequate state funding to provide all students in the District with the educational opportunities they need to meet state standards and graduate ready for work or further education and a bright future.

This guide, Leveraging Summer for Student Success, shows how significant changes in California school financing and accountability systems under the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) are right now providing educators, school leaders and communities a new opportunity to reinvent and reinvest in summer learning programs.

As a result of Supreme Court decisions and legal changes to the enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), state and local governments could be held liable if students with disabilities face unnecessary segregation as they prepare for postschool employment.

«The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)-- a change in California law that provides a new system for funding public schools in the state — offers several opportunities for schools and districts to create new, or enhance existing, programs to improve elementary school attendance.

Jersey is only 45 square miles yet offers a huge range of activities for a break away at any time of year and with the changing seasons come changing opportunities and local produce to try.

Curators, local gallery owners, artists, arts practitioners and stakeholders will have an opportunity to discuss these recent changes and share their vision for the cultural and economic landscape of the neighborhood.

As a local arts organization, we have always responded to changing needs on the Lower East Side and have strived to present new opportunities, develop new resources as they are needed for local artists, and engage with the community.

Also, in certain states — like California — and local markets as utilities change how they charge customers for energy use, the energy storage systems can provide additional opportunities to save money.

These are important as they can provide national level evidence of the linkages between climate and health, improve understanding of local and specific health risks and vulnerabilities, provide the opportunity for capacity building, and serve as a baseline analysis to monitor how health risks may be influenced by a changing climate over time.

Other examples involving both risks and opportunities include changes of investment flows to regions where future climate change impacts may be beneficial for productivity Finally, some impacts that are entirely local and may have little or no direct effect outside the regions in which they occur still threaten values of global significance, and thus trigger international concern.

A land - based carbon sequestration project designed to mitigate climate change, create employment opportunities for community and first nation residents, and develop forest ecosystems that will enhance adaptability of the local community and ecosystems to climate change.

A new opportunity, a source of local employment, increased income for the farmers who are hosting the wind turbines, a source of finance for community development and a local asset that can show the world that the people in this area are proud to be a part of the necessary change to renewable energy and away from the damaging use of fossil fuels.

This study shows that, because skilled individuals will have greater migration opportunities, climate change may lead parents to have fewer children and invest more in each individual child, with consequences for local income inequality.

As planning for FoodWorks got underway last year, Quinn gave a speech highlighting the vast opportunity that already exists to boost consumption local food in the city, and that considering the city's size, even small changes can have huge impact.

It provided opportunities for leadership and participation in issues of climate change, and supported young people to take challenging and creative action in their local environment.

Changing the landscape of trade agreements and providing incentives (or disincentives) focused on optimizing the utilisation of US - based labour or to purchase US - produced items, will likely both create opportunity and change the risk analysis for local and international businesses.

For law professors or law schools engaged in criminal justice systems change, this new NIJ focus / funding might provide an interesting opportunity to examine local justice problems.

- Managing your own sales activity to market Berry Recruitment and your own ability and knowledge of the local market - Securing face to face meetings with decision makers within business across the south west - Advertising opportunities across several job boards, searching CVs portals and managing direct applications - Interviewing candidates over the phone and face to face to asses suitability for positions - Managing interview and offer process with candidates and clients - Work as a team, sharing information with direct colleague and those across neighbouring Berry locations - Achieving monthly and quarterly revenue targets SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE: - An experienced sales professional with strong working knowledge of the local market - Self - motivated, able to perform without direct management input - Proven success of achieving revenue targets - Commercially aware, able to respond to market changes and identify opportunities - Transparent communicator and comfortable working within a small team - Fully flexible to adapt to all working requirements - Full driving licence required.

Summary of Responsibilities Ensure the daily operation of the office, including coordination and supervision of cleaning, plant care, and other maintenance services Order general office supplies, stationary and office equipment Organize any issues related to representation, orienting guests, ordering supplies for presentations, catering Assist in liaison with the landlord of office building, with service providers Assist in liaison with external IT service provider, handle lower level IT issues in the office (printer, webcam etc.), coordinate with the IT team in Budapest Handle incoming and outgoing mails, liaise with Fedex / UPS / USPS Assist in coordination and preparation for meetings and conference calls, including arrangement of logistics, meeting space, communications and catering Assist in arranging and confirming local, domestic and complex international travel for team members and ensuring effective use of time and resources Assist the HR team with new employee work station set up Assist, order, prepare marketing correspondence Prepare and submit expense reports Maintain filing structure for both hard copy and electronic files Qualifications Bachelor's or Master's degree Minimum of 3 years of experience Computer proficiency with MS Office, heavy Outlook knowledge Driver's license Key competencies Strong organizational, project and time management skills; detail - oriented Strong sense of urgency and efficiency in completing work Ability to take self - initiative and be proactive Ability to recognize and appropriately handle highly sensitive and confidential material and information Ability to multi-task and prioritize workload Excellent verbal and written communication skills Team player Ability to work with minimum of supervision Flexible and open to changing priorities We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)-- Duties & Responsibilities Provide support to other staff and coordinate all care efforts while acting as primary point of contact to patients Perform frequent patient evaluations, including initial and on - going examinations, monitoring and tracking of vital signs, executing various minor procedures, and both administering and tracking medication use per physician orders for an extensive variety of conditions Alert physicians to any change in condition and raise concerns when necessary through accurate communication Communicate effectively with other medical staff, family members and interested parties to facilitate the efficient treatment of patients as well as ensure the timely information flow Collaborate in the development of treatment plans, providing guidance from point of admission through discharge while utilizing initial and on - going assessments to provide correct medical direction Deliver emotional and informational support to patient, their families, and other interested parties, helping them understand conditions, treatments and potential outcomes Develop and maintain competencies and knowledge of medical techniques, information, conditions, treatments, medications, and potential interactions, participating actively in all continuing education opportunities Utilize and employ knowledge from clinical rotations in MedSurgical, Telemetry, GI, Emergency Room, Post-Partum, Nursery, Internal Medicine, Occupational Medicine, Family Practice and Urgent Care settings Adhere strictly to local, state, and federal health - related laws in the administration of care, the operation and utilization of all medical equipment and procedures, and treatment of patients Address patient and doctor queries, resolving them in an expedited manner

A strong regional infrastructure for implementing the ELP will ensure that statewide and local organizations work together, tap into each other's wisdom, have the capacity to understand the changing demographics and needs of children and families, and set strategy to take action collectively so that ALL children have a greater opportunity to be successful in school and in life, particularly those furthest from opportunity.

While demographic factors in some metros, such as a younger than average population, may be fueling unequal housing outcomes, along with a national trend that has been pointing to a gradually widening gap, there still seems to be plenty of opportunity for changes to local housing policy that could move the needle in a favorable wave for low - income groups.

Now more than ever, we are challenged with the responsibility of identifying and cultivating the unique talents and opportunities we possess to be a source for positive change in both our local and global communities.