Sentences with phrase «often focused their program»

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These factors, often lumped together under the term «behavior modification,» are the focus of programs like Weight Watchers, for example, and they work for thousands of people.

The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

Carol Raphael, President and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, the state's oldest and largest home care agency, said, «The Visiting Nurse Service of New York applauds Governor Cuomo's call for a thoughtful, collaborative approach to restructuring the State's Medicaid program; we are prepared to work with him and his Administration toward the enactment of policies that focus on coordinating care to the State's most vulnerable patients, who often suffer from multiple complex conditions.»

«Public health programs often focus on how a pregnant mother's health, behavior and physiology can impact the health of her baby,» Shah said.

«We try to help them build their evaluation skills so they are empowered to conduct their own evaluation, because you often see that practitioners are very focused on delivering services and aren't able to adequately assess the effectiveness of their programming,» she explains.

The focus of the program is often more specific and the choice of institutions and degrees much wider.

But official definitions of rural often just mean «not urban,» she says, and the Wisconsin residency program will make sure that communities considered «very rural» — those serving fewer than 20,000 people — will be the focus.

During the years of bodybuilding, bodybuilders have used these kinds of workout programs and often focused on one or two muscle groups per day, by doing multiple exercises and sets for those particular group of muscles.

Although this is often the primary focus of all commercial cleanses or detoxification programs, I don't necessarily believe that it's the most important factor in Spring Self - Care.

The neck is often neglected in fitness programs, but since so many people have bad posture it is important to focus on neck strengthening.

This is often difficult to do unless you stop your more aggressive strengthening programs and focus on the smaller muscles of your pelvic basket.

Since low eccentric strength has been identified as a risk factor for adductor - related groin injuries (see review by Hrysomallis, 2009), eccentric adduction strength is often a particular focus of such programs.

S&C coaches get contacted for «advanced programming» often when an athlete should be focused on getting health parameters in check.

Big - government opponents often focus on its expense and power to compel, but Wallison argues it can be undemocratic and unconstitutional: Regulatory agencies are empowered to make crucial policy decisions, craft rules with the weight of law, and implement behemoth programs.

Schools will leverage online learning for academics, which means they will be able to act as community centers in essence and focus far more on providing well - kept facilities that students want to attend with great face - to - face supports, high - quality meals, and a range of athletic, musical, and artistic programs — things that receive short shrift all too often today.

Teacher education programs are so focused on content knowledge that they often fail to provide adequate preparation on child and adolescent development, concludes a report scheduled to come out this week from two leading organizations in those respective fields.

Because students enrolled in alternative school programs often tend to be unengaged in school, alternative school programs are often more motivated to focus on improving student engagement than traditional schools.

While the computer science teacher often read the directions for students and would translate them into «plain speak,» he did not necessarily focus on the direction words or what role they played in following a program or in writing a basic program.

Sadly, when it comes to schools and academic intervention, all too often the focus becomes a program.

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).

To create an after - school study program richer and deeper than most, Citizen Schools focuses on the golden hours that follow the school day, which is often over by 2:30 P.M..

For a district that has focused on building a high - quality innovative program, it's often difficult to «tell the story» to the world outside... without using resources that are needed to maintain and grow the program.

«Programs for students [with disabilities] often focus on the characteristics of their disability to the exclusion of their total educational needs,» Hehir says.

Moreover, as a fundamentally political process, state adoption decisions often focus more on pleasing various interest groups than on enhancing the schools» instructional programs.

The programs shared seven common features: they were focused on the subject areas that teachers teach; incorporated active learning; supported collaboration; used models and modeling to demonstrate effective practice; provided expert coaching and support, offered opportunities for feedback and reflection, and were sustained in duration, often unfolding over months or years, rather than occurring in a single, «drive - by» after school workshop, as is often the norm.

School districts often consider improving both school diversity and school quality through programs with an innovative focus.

The public debates surrounding teacher quality and preparation accountability often do not address this increasing segmentation and, thus, focus on university - based programs.

Too often graduate programs separate and segment these areas rather than offering a coherent STEM graduate specialty program that provides a unified and specialized curriculum focusing on all four areas.

ESL programs often focus on newcomer - and beginner - level students, while students with intermediate and more advanced levels of proficiency hit roadblocks in their progress.

Social and emotional learning programs that focus on improving behavior, while well - intentioned, often isolate children the most.

Rural communities all too often face scarce funding, instructors and facilities, forcing institutions to choose between offering a variety of introductory courses across a breadth of subjects or providing more narrowly focused, sequenced programs within one or two priority Career Clusters.

This social worker was able to focus on students, such as my first grader, who were experiencing mental health issues — often due to early trauma — but who did not have an Individualized Education Program (IEP) in place.

Although many teacher preparation programs have evolved substantially, traditional university - based programs have often been critiqued for being academically and theoretically focused, with limited and disconnected opportunities for clinical experience.

Keep a Focus on Mission, Vision, and Identity Often, turnaround schools get an influx of funds, and the temptation is to spend it on a variety of resources and training programs.

Often turnaround programs focus on schools as the locus of intervention.

A key frustration of the cohort - based programs, however, was that working as a group often constrained their time and did not focus on what they needed most to advance their work.

Expanding learning - time programs that focus with all good intentions on remediation and tutoring, but that extend traditional school structures into afterschool time, may experience weak attendance and missed opportunities because these efforts are too often disconnected from the rich learning lives of today's youth.

While policymakers often focus on dramatic, large - scale efforts, small programs can pay big dividends.

Programs often remove students from their communities or schools, sit them in a room, and drill into them the importance of an issue that adults have determined they need to hear student voice focused on.

Programs that aim to train highly - qualified teachers often fail to give appropriate direction to incoming novice teachers, instead focusing only on theories that have no implication in the classroom.

Despite offers that sound legitimate, these companies have been the focus of consumer alerts from the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada and often claim to be part of a government program, when in fact no such program or government debt consolidation loan exists.

Often when we accept clients into our different Charlotte in - home dog training programs, their dogs tend to lack some degree of focus and recall.

Because they promote immediate control over a dog's attention and focus, I often employ head collars in training programs to address leash reactivity.

«Efforts to address animal homelessness often focus on helping animals in shelters, but this research and our own community - focused programs show we need to focus just as much on keeping pets from entering shelters in the first place, specifically by helping owners access critical resources,» said Matt Bershadker, president and CEO of the ASPCA.

While most of us focus our spending on one main card, we often leave points stagnating in less - used loyalty programs.

Of course none of the awards search engines out there are perfect and you will still often find more accurate results by checking individual programs, but they are a great place to to at least start your search and help you bring into focus what can be a very hazy, big picture.

We have now been in place for a year - and - a-half and have begun to welcome scholars and researchers, museum curators and directors, artists, students, and foundation colleagues for programs ranging from lectures, panel discussions, and seminars to more informal gatherings, often including a focus on materials drawn from our archives.

The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery focuses on presenting historical and scholarly exhibitions and programming that provide new scholarship on important and often under - represented artists and art movements.

Thelma Golden, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs at the Studio Museum in Harlem, synopsizes the development of «black art» from «the vital political activism of the 1960s to the focused, often essentialist, Black Arts Movement of the 1970s to the theory — driven multiculturalism of the 1980s to the late globalist expansion of the late 1990s.»

An older buying pool translated to an increased focus on blue - chip works and Asian mainstays, perhaps one of the reasons the fair's often robust auxiliary events and programming seemed somewhat subdued this year by comparison.