Sentences with phrase «modeling innovative efforts»

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I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

As well as being the first time in recent memory that meals have been made from scratch in D.C. Public Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indigent.

Nowadays, in an effort to demonstrate and maintain leadership, make a mark, be part of the forerunners, or simply be noticed, many nations have updated their traditional model of political, commercial, and cultural representation to include diplomatic representation of their innovative skills, research achievements and potential, and of the quality of their highly qualified workforce.

The effort uses innovative ARM radar observations from the MC3E field campaign to evaluate a series of high - resolution simulations, which results in an improved understanding of cloud transitions and how to diagnose these transitions in models.

The overarching goal of this effort is to leverage new knowledge in the service of generating and testing innovative intervention models to produce substantially greater impacts on learning, behavior, and health outcomes than existing programs and policies, particularly for the most disadvantaged children and families.

As my colleague Michelle R. Weise has observed, lacking autonomy from the business model — the resources, processes, and priorities — of an existing organization dooms innovative efforts to follow the same path as the parent.

The effects of these restoration efforts can be felt in communities around the Earth, and our innovative approach is a model with global scalability.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

Since 2000, the foundation has invested $ 2 billion in innovative school models, improved systems for data and accountability, and school district efforts.

SMB: We should take a page from the successful, ongoing efforts that address the lingering lag in girls» and women's participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and leadership positions: 1) mentoring and role - modeling programs that involve more men in schools, particularly men who hold other than traditionally male jobs so that students see men in a variety of careers; 2) a national fathers» reading campaign to engage more fathers in reading to their children; and 3) increased funding for innovative programs that engage students in literacy activities in and out of school.

FOSTERING NEW COMMUNITY - DESIGNED SCHOOLS: Our School Design Lab supports efforts across Oakland to grow innovative and proven educational models and cultivate transformative leaders for our community schools.

This strategy is based on research suggesting that innovative faculty development models focusing on personal needs are most effective in producing educational change (Persichette, 1998; Strudler & Wetzel, 1999), effective technology - related faculty development efforts enable teacher educators to enhance their instruction (Cooper & Bull, 1997), and faculty members must receive support when they need it as opposed to when a training session is offered (Ring, Cilesiz, Ali, & Chen, 2002).

City - based education organizations, or «harbormasters» and others who coordinate efforts to improve education within a city to incubate new school models; work to attract talented entrepreneurs to develop break - the - mold innovations; and build an infrastructure of charter school supports that allow operators to focus more energy spent on innovative educational approaches, not operations.

In an interview with the Public School Forum, Hall explained that the Innovative School District is essentially an effort to build a brand new local school district aimed at turning around low - performing schools — and, he said, lawmakers understood that there's a start - up cost to that kind of work when they developed an initial budget for the turnaround model.

The Innovative School District — a school turnaround model born out of similar reform efforts that experienced mixed records in Tennessee, Michigan, Louisiana and a few other states — is getting off to a slow start due at least in part to a contentious and very public struggle to select low - performing schools that were willing to undergo such a controversial experiment.

Funding and management assistance from NewSchools Venture Fund will fuel efforts to launch new, innovative school models

During this time she has focused her efforts on developing innovative retirement investment programs, researching and assessing the merits of alternative income distribution strategies and modeling expected performance of competitor income distribution products.

The new president will be expected to knowledgeably encourage and embody that leadership both internally, for example, helping to investigate innovative and future - oriented higher education delivery models, and externally, raising Pratt's profile by engaging in critical design and cultural issues of the day, such as ongoing efforts to diversify the professional fields.

We understand that, overall, cost reduction efforts may fail to account for innovative technologies; in our representation of other companies on the state initiatives, we have stressed the need for state policymakers to recognize access to innovation in developing in any payment model.

The two companies have agreed to collaborate their efforts at developing an innovative FIDO authentication system model using blockchain technology.

Innovative, creative and knowledgeable Gaming and Animation Design candidate with proven track record of interpersonal collaborative efforts, utilization of the latest technology environments, and strong knowledge of current design tools, 3D modeling, and usability trends.

Behind both of these efforts is a Pay for Success model, an innovative funding strategy that leverages private and public investments to scale and ensure high - quality social services.