Sentences with phrase «pilot effort»

To date, the project has launched pilot efforts in Boston, the state of Illinois, and most recently Silicon Valley, Calif., to help mobilize leaders to improve the pathways in their regions.
Developing regional pilot efforts, scaling up to cover the full region, and replicating the most effective strategies.
Tired of living in the only Southern state without a publicly financed program of early - childhood education, business leaders across Mississippi have launched a three - year pilot effort to improve the educational quality of child - care centers and better prepare children for school.
Recommendations include creating affinity groups within state pilot efforts to learn and share best practices and scaling efforts to promote greater accessibility to learning opportunities for students with disabilities.
This year's Clear the Shelters event comes after last year's highly successful pilot effort, which resulted in nearly 800 pets adopted in San Diego and 20,000 pets nationally finding new homes through an unprecedented partnership between the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations and hundreds of animal shelters located all across the country and in Puerto Rico.
With a properly designed approach, we've helped organizations implement process design efforts from smaller scale pilot efforts focused on a single client relationship to broader lean six sigma programs to be deployed across entire practice areas or «centers of excellence» within in - house teams.
The district is considering supporting a zone of schools to pilot this effort.
«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bigger.
And, the first area chosen to pilot that effort is the state's Capital City region.
DEC is initiating this pilot effort in central New York and has selected a 1,325 - square - mile group of three WMUs (7H, 8J and 8S) which encompass Seneca County and portions of Ontario, Wayne, Yates, Schuyler, Tompkins and Cayuga counties.
For instance, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is involved in a pilot effort to market carbon credits in Madagascar via the Makira Carbon Co., yet Ferguson complains that the organization has never sought consent from indigenous communities living in the forests and has no mechanism to distribute revenues.
The scientists have a pilot effort using the same basic reactor to process nutrients from dairy and pig waste while removing methane.
Districts are responding: As of spring 2014, four districts nationally are piloting Opportunity Culture models, and one, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, is taking its pilot efforts to scale based on recruiting results and demand from schools.
Washington — In an attempt to reduce the paperwork associated with administering school - meals programs, the Department of Agriculture has begun a pilot effort under which selected districts may alter the way they run their programs.
The product of a collaboration involving the local school system, a federal agency, a professional association, and private foundations and universities, the pilot effort is designed to both encourage young people to stay in school and gently nudge them toward careers in public service.
The City of Philadelphia has launched its community schools initiative with the selection of nine schools to pilot the effort, and the hiring of community schools coordinators at each of them.
With SRI Education as the independent evaluator, this pilot effort in nine California districts has documented the development and implementation of Linked Learning district systems and examined their impact on student outcomes.
In collaboration with International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), REA evaluated a pilot effort of the South Carolina State Department of Education to test the feasibility of virtual schooling for the state, examining its online learning course management system (Blackboard), registration system, quality assurance measures, and the need for and response to the program around the state.
During this webinar, presenters discussed the value and uses of the employability skills framework and complimentary module including its development, pilot efforts, and potential uses.
These pilot efforts seek to accelerate the pace and volume of industrial efficiency initiatives.
To support our technology scale - up and piloting efforts, CO2 Solutions will continue to work with leading industrial deployment partners.
Proponents say the large investment in a pilot effort is important, to prove that Alberta has both the technology and geology to address the CO2 emissions that have marred the exploitation of its vast oil wealth.
Cities are proceeding cautiously, watching the results of pilot efforts, and encouraging dockless companies to share more data so that cities can better evaluate and understand how dockless bike share can further city goals of safety, equity, and sustainable mobility.
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