Sentences with phrase «particular focus supporting»
ACER has a particular focus supporting Ministries of Education within the development sector to improve student learning.
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Now, buyers can select the RSPO - certified grower or mill they wish to support via GreenPalm's off - market deal facility, or can focus their sustainable sourcing on a particular geographical area.
The particular focus concerned models of urban agriculture that supported livelihoods and income generation, and which enabled improved access to good food for low income communities.
Although an overconsumption of energy relative to needs must be addressed to halt the obesity epidemic, our analysis provides little evidence to support a particular focus on any one source of energy.
The team support staff must closely monitor all players, instead of only a particular focus on less fit, large players with an excessive body mass index (BMI), for signs and symptoms of developing heat - related injury during football practice or competition in stressful environments.
Rather than worry about or tie yourself to a particular method, I recommend focusing on two things for first foods: Nutrient dense foods to support growth and development, and foods that are appropriate for a developing digestive system.
Purpose of the Best Practice Examples: The following CSH best practice examples were developed to support health sector partners in working through a CSH lens using a particular health area as a focus for collaborative action in the school setting.
The proportion of women in British Columbia (BC) receiving care from a midwife continues to grow and there is a particular focus on promoting and supporting normal pregnancy and birth in the midwifery philosophy of care.
Organisations working among marginalised groups such as young people and unmarried women will be a particular focus for the scheme, which will also support agencies that lobby their governments for legislation and policies that support access to services.
The Library Foundation of Buffalo & Erie County and its independent Board of Trustees manages the Library's endowment funds under the auspices of the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and supports special projects within the Library's Strategic Plan with a particular focus on Rare Books & Special Collections.
Mr Cameron's focus on the family and the work life balance - including his statement at the weekend that he would rather be a good dad than prime minister - have won him increasing support from the public, and women in particular.
According to Ortiz, the Rivera race was one of about a half dozen contests «critical to changing the landscape» where the club focused particular effort in providing volunteer support.
Future research should focus on how relationships between religious or spiritual involvement and health change over time, and whether support services designed to enhance particular aspects of religion and spirituality in interested patients might help improve their well - being.
We believe that government support is essential but should be biased toward lowest - cost and lowest - environmental - impact biofuels rather than focusing on a particular technology.
Work on astrophysical theory to interpret space - based observations receives little support from NASA, for instance, because it's not related to a particular mission, while NSF managers focus on ground - based data.
«Our latest research findings support a newly emerging model of how the brain focuses attention on a particular task, using neurons in the thalamic reticular nucleus as a switchboard to control the amount of information the brain receives, limiting and filtering out sensory information that we don't want to pay attention to,» says senior study investigator and neuroscientist Michael Halassa, MD, PhD.
«In its Science and Engineering Research Program, the W. M. Keck Foundation has long focused on supporting cutting - edge research and the development of new technologies that may lead to breakthrough achievements in a particular field,» said Robert Day, Chairman of the W. M. Keck Foundation.
Promoting wider access to genomic medicine in Mexico and Latin America by supporting discovery programs that focus on health problems with particular relevance to the region, and leverage its unique population genetics.
The particular focus will be the role of the stem cell supporting microenvironment and its potential translation into biotechnological applications.
In particular, SPI will focus on land - based interventions that support national drought planning and reduce migration pressures.
The position has a particular focus on exposure and risk assessment at both the domestic and international levels, including support for relevant ACC committees and subgroups.
The program focuses on two particular aspects of motherhood A. Postpartum recovery and support of new mothers B. Maternal Burnout through the life cycle
Discussions of testing and nutritional support for the methylation cycle are a particular focus for this group.
In particular, the report shares lessons learned in targeting key economic regions, analyzing regional assets and gaps, and focusing technical assistance and support on helping states and regions with such things as early career advising and exposure, engaging employers, and building intermediary organizations that can link employers and schools to scale up the provision of workplace learning opportunities for young people.
Principals should model their own use of digital learning tools to personalize their work with individual teachers, whether through providing feedback immediately after a walk through (a quick email focused on a particular area) or by utilizing data to help a teacher better identify professional learning experiences that may support their growth and goals.
The EEF and the Royal Society hope to identify best practice and approaches to support young people to achieve in science, with a particular focus on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Each school focused on the challenges relevant to its particular context such as GCSE attainment, Key Stage 2 literacy, family support, transition, cultural diversity and community cohesion.
The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Education, supported by the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), has launched an inquiry to examine how well our schools are preparing young people for their future, with a particular focus on their readiness for the workforce.
One way of doing this is to focus on how technology can best support a group of learners who have particular difficulties in these areas of development, so that we can understand more about how we can harness the use of technology to enhance communication and interaction for all children.
A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparation.
He is a leading change agent, being involved in the makeover of several schools ICT hardware and programs, with a particular focus on pedagogy to support curriculum integration of technology.
«The report is designed to continue the dialogue at local, state, and regional levels about how to create partnerships across Pre-K-20 systems and diverse constituencies to support young people, with a particular focus on building on the region's assets and on working collaboratively,» explains IEL's Dr. Helen Janc Malone.
This webinar focuses on a recent Wallace Foundation report, which highlights the important role that districts, and in particular principal supervisors, must play in supporting school level leaders.
To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.
These schools, identified for targeted support and improvement (TSI), must develop and implement their own intervention plan that focuses improvement efforts on the particular subgroup (s) that caused it to be identified for TSI.
The data by grade can help you determine if your district should focus on particular grades, while the data by school can reveal if a particular cluster of schools within the district might need more support in addressing chronic absence.
The school, Henry Grew Elementary, focused in particular on fostering educators» readiness to trust, clarifying roles, and solidifying routines to support connection and risk - taking.
Our own troubleshooting work with teachers at the schools is scheduled separately around these off - site meetings, focused on supporting particular activities that teachers are conducting — so that there is a real need for focus when we are there.
They then went back to the computer activity and repurposed it to focus on supporting inferences with evidence from the text and helping students identify the precise meaning of particular passages.
My particular focus has been on the use of assistive technology in partnership with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to support inclusive classrooms.
These can be a broad exploration of a school, or a more focussed review of a particular elements such as SEND or meeting the needs of other disadvantaged learners and are offered as a stand alone activity or as part of a package of ongoing support.
Given Fuller's long - time Walton involvements, what makes Fuller's efforts to actually empower New Orleans community members particularly interesting is this October 2015 report announcing that the Walton Foundation 2016 - 20 strategic plan involves trying to drum up community support for its charter school reforms - and one city of particular focus is New Orleans.
The grant will fund the district's efforts to implement EXCELerator, a career readiness framework developed by the College Board that aims to improve the district college readiness infrastructure and capacity to provide rigorous education and supports, with a particular focus on historically underserved students.
Her experience in supervision and evaluation and her passion for supporting all students with a particular focus on special education students and English Learners have brought her to CAS.
ThinkCERCA focuses on developing students» ability to read a text and produce a written response using the CERCA framework: (1) make Claims, (2) support claims with textual Evidence, (3) explain their Reasoning, (4) recognize Counterarguments, and (5) use language that appeals to a particular Audience.
Tutoring and other support for learning, such as TRiO programs, should be more available, with particular focus on students with low test scores and low incomes.
Preservice teachers are generally regarded as having a broad understanding of how to use technology for personal purposes; however, they have minimal knowledge about the range of tools available to support student learning or how to use these tools to support student learning with a particular focus on constructivist practices (Ertmer & Ottenbreit - Leftwich, 2010).
The work of this committee focused on interventions that show particular promise to support the rapid educational improvement of high numbers of students by targeting supports to these schools.
In particular, we will focus on how to design and enact instruction that elicits and builds on children's thinking in all content domains as well as how to use curriculum materials, family and community - based resources, and other supports to help facilitate mathematical practice development in children.
The work of this Committee focused on interventions that show particular promise to support the rapid educational improvement of high numbers of students by targeting supports to these schools.