Sentences with phrase «national initiatives designed»

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that 64 more local governments across the state have signed up to share their data on open.ny.gov, a new and comprehensive data transparency website — just three days after its launch at the start of Sunshine Week, a national initiative designed to raise awareness about the importance of open government.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has made Texas the first state to support multiple districts in creating anb Opportunity Culture, joining the national initiative designed to extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to more students, for more pay, within recurring budgets.

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Dialogue is so critical to the architectural engineering design firm's DNA that once a year, the company hosts a national initiative called Aspire Dialog, where the company's best projects are put on display to be critiqued by outside experts.

About MaRS Centre for Impact Investing The MaRS Centre for Impact Investing is a national hub designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of social finance to catalyze new capital, talent and initiatives dedicated to tackling social and environmental problems in Canada.

Opened in late 2011, the Centre for Impact Investing is a national hub designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of social finance, which directs new capital, talent and initiatives toward tackling Canada's most pressing social and environmental problems.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

It's a beautiful thing to spend time outside with your kids, and per my role as a founding mother for the National Wildlife Federation, I wanted to point you all to this Saturday's Great American Backyard Campout — an initiative designed to inspire families to enjoy a night of old - fashioned fun outdoors.

In conjunction with state and national leadership, we have developed a well designed strategic plan to advance third party reimbursement initiatives in the State of Wisconsin that will implement diverse pilot programs at key locations around the state.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is «throwing away millions» of tax payers money on poorly designed private finance initiative (PFI) projects, according to national audit office (NAO) statistics released today.

While at SEIU, she helped design and implement new initiatives connecting national strategies to build power with local unions and partners.

Designed and constructed by the New York State Power Authority (NYPA) and Office of General Services (OGS), the power grid would run independently — able to provide power in a city - wide blackout while alleviating dependence on the national grid — and will be part of the governor's statewide initiative in Reforming the Energy Vision (REV).

To tackle complex problems like improving the compatibility of cattle and fish, the social and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communities.

Sept. 19, 2017 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) will be part of a multi-lab effort to apply high - performance computing to U.S. - based industry's discovery, design and development of materials for severe environments under a new initiative announced today by the Department of Energy (DOE).

Lance Rutter has spent the last 30 + years of his career devoted to graphic design, working on projects in his Chicago design studio, teaching design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, serving on the national board of the AIGA, and presiding over the 2008 and 2010 Chicago International Poster Biennials, among other public design advocacy initiatives.

On October 7, the Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school model.

SkillFRIDGE, the national refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump competition, sponsored by Toshiba, forms part of the WorldSkills UK portfolio, a government led initiative designed to champion world - class apprenticeships and technical skills development programmes.

Visitors to the site can find articles about education and technology news; research on topics in math education, implementing standards, and standardized testing; and resources on technology integration, multimedia in projects, web design, national math initiatives, math methodology, and professional development.

The Education Redesign Lab aims to provoke a national design conversation and initiative to build 21st - century systems of education and child development.

We examine an intervention designed to expand Hispanic students» college exposure: the National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP), a College Board initiative that identifies top - performing Hispanic students based on their 11th - grade Preliminary SAT / National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT / NMSQT) scores.

While many states sponsor one or more early - childhood programs, only a handful have designed a network of initiatives for young children and their families, a study by the National Center for Children in Poverty reports.

They include implementation of a new management structure, pedagogical framework, introduction of a Year 7 selective class, academic challenges for students and an initiative that has seen teachers plan and design 192 units linked to the new National Curriculum.

The Premier League Primary Stars programme is a national curriculum - linked education initiative, designed to inspire children to learn, engage and be active.

HP also launched its National Education Technology Assessment Programme, a global initiative that is designed to ensure educational establishments have the IT tools they need to prepare students for the digital economy.

WISECampaign, a national initiative for equality across STEM careers, recently revealed that theoverall number of girls studying GCSE Design & Technology decreased by 11.1 % this year, while those taking GCSE ICT subjects fell by 16.6 %.

On balance, a well - designed, national initiative of tolerance has been subsumed by sectarian interests, led primarily by a (relatively small) fundamentalist Christian lobby.

Industry giant Toshiba is the lead brand sponsor of SkillFRIDGE, the national refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump competition which forms part of the WorldSkills UK portfolio, a government led initiative designed to champion apprenticeships and technical skills development programmes.

With Pence's support, it becomes more likely Indiana will become the first to leave the Common Core initiative, though many others have taken a step back from national consortiums designing new tests aligned to the standards.

By contrast, while Pence hasn't advocated for exiting the initiative, he did pull the state out of a national consortium designing new standardized tests.

She has worked with national organizations to present social science evidence in U.S. Supreme Court cases on racial integration, on state and national initiatives to improve interracial relations in schools, and with non-governmental and international organizations to evaluate applied programs designed to reduce racial and ethnic conflict.

To address persistent gaps in postsecondary educational attainment and our country's growing economic and workforce needs, federal and state policymakers, the philanthropic community, national education organizations and practitioners have put forth a number of goals and initiatives designed to increase college completion rates.

The initiative includes two private sector partners: Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit focused on broadening educational and economic opportunity; and the Stanford Center for Assessment, Language and Equity (SCALE), an affiliate of Stanford University that provides consulting services on the design and implementation of performance - based assessments.

The district's plan involved realigning the initiative to the National Blueprint, designing a supportive infrastructure, and changing the prevailing mind - set about RTI.

The Instructional Designer is a critical link in helping the Learning and Delivery department at Massage Envy Franchising, LLC achieve high - quality design materials that support training and implementation of franchisor national initiatives by franchisees and their staff.

The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, a non-profit advocacy group, is collaborating with Qualcomm, Kajeet for Education, and HTC to launch an initiative designed to «empower pre - service / student teachers with advanced wireless technologies.»

The Teacher Leadership Initiative, or TLI, is a partnership between the Center for Teaching Quality, the National Education Association, and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to recruit, prepare, and support the next generation of teachers to lead the profession.54 Through the initiative, participants engage with an interactive curriculum designed and facilitated by expert teachers.

These modules focus on the Engineering Design Practice which is a critical component of NGSS, state standards, and national initiatives.

Major milestones in Jason's work at Insight include co-authoring a book, Strategic Design for Student Achievement (Teachers College Press, 2009), serving as the chief architect of customized instructional frameworks for multiple school districts, providing leadership support for standards - based initiatives in schools across the country, and serving as the lead designer of a national teacher certification and training program for The New Teacher Project.

Nicole is head of Teach First's Ambassador Department which leads the design and national delivery of initiatives and programmes for ambassadors.

Our flagship initiative is to launch eNEPA, an online collaboration tool designed to expedite the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) development process.

Eve's work leading Grub Street was recently recognized by the National Arts Strategies when they selected her to join their Chief Executive Program, a two - year initiative designed to unleash the collective power of 100 of the top executive leaders in the cultural sector to re-imagine the potential of cultural institutions and to figure out how they can contribute to civil society in the 21st century.

Along with planting ideas and designs to amuse playful moggies, visitors to Cats Protection's award - winning stand can browse a beautiful range of cat - themed gift merchandise as well as find out more about current national and regional initiatives or how to adopt a cat or volunteer.

LOS ANGELES, CA - Otis College of Art and Design and Joshua Tree National Park recently launched the Joshua Tree Art Innovation Laboratory (JT Lab), an initiative which will explore ways that artists can contribute to the National Park Service's mission and strengthen the role artists play in the National Park Service (NPS).

Recent commissions include The Victoria & Albert, London for their National Art Library's new initiative to archive contemporary & modern Arab, Turkish & Iranian art and design in 2012.

Over the years, MAAF has built a core of program initiatives designed to address specific issues of regional, national and international arts support.

She brings deep expertise in sustainability strategy, stakeholder engagement, program development and written communications.Deborah has helped to design and implement numerous successful cross-sector partnerships and new green initiatives, including the California Environmental Dialogue, Curb Your Carbon and the Institute at the Golden Gate.She has helped create lasting alliances among such organizations as Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy with companies such as Disney, Arco, Bank of America and Passport Resorts.You can follow her occasional tweet @GreenImpact or contact her directly at [email protected].

Are you seriously arguing that this initiative is designed to «shift national attention away from» the ACA?

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This is only a quick overview to the current range of INDC tracking and assessment initiatives, which is to say, initiatives that are designed to help us make sense of the national pledges of climate action.

The overall plan is designed to embrace both national and local initiatives and to include specific, focused initiatives, while also establishing discretionary funds that permit flexibility and allow each of the firm's offices to tailor its diversity outreach to the interests and involvement of its individual attorneys and the needs of each office's local community.

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