Sentences with phrase «pilot program designed»

Infant / Toddler Training Care: During the 1990s, SEDL early - childhood specialists participated in a nationwide pilot program designed to enhance professional services for both center - based caregivers and family - based childcare providers for at - risk infants and toddlers.

The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) finalized rules yesterday for a three - year community solar pilot program designed to encourage 192.1 MW of development.

Pet Care, a dog walking, pet sitting and boarding franchise, joined forces with natural pet food manufacturer Halo, Purely For Pets, not too long ago to launch a pilot program designed to fight pet obesity and promote healthy pet lifestyles.

Here in my home town of Los Gatos, California, Smashwords (my company) has been working in partnership with the Los Gatos Public Library over the last six months to develop and roll out a pilot program designed to help local writers learn to become professional publishers.

Teachers in six districts began receiving feedback this year as part of a pilot program designed to offer insight to the rest of the state.

Bridge PSL, one of eight PSL providers, is part of the Liberian Ministry of Education's (MOE) pilot program designed to revolutionise the Liberian education system.

The state of Ohio has established a pilot program designed to provide educational choices to families with children who reside in the Cleveland City School District.

The announcement came the same week late last month that the department unveiled a pilot program designed to help states better test students with limited English proficiency.

Beginning next week, students in Dade County, Fla., public schools will start «logging on» microcomputers to solve geometry problems or to work on reading skills as part of a pilot program designed to acquaint students with computer technology and to supplement classroom instruction.

On Wednesday Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone launched the Reclaim Our Water Septic Improvement Plan, a pilot program designed to make it cheaper for residents to replace their antiquated wastewater systems with advanced treatment systems.

The recently enacted state budget creates a new affordable housing pilot program designed to help those who are homeless or at risk of losing their housing, and initially funds it with $ 15 million.

The next phase of Ford's Smart Mobility plan includes several pilot programs designed to help ease the cost of transportation.

It therefore calls for experimentation and innovation in the way lawyers learn to practice, and announces several pilot programs designed to demonstrate some new and different approaches to be implemented in New York City.

Georgia also piloted a program designed to strengthen enrollment and engagement in home visiting services.

Pilot programs designed to replace the old reimbursement - based system have launched around the country in recent years and are built on bundled payments structures, such as the Managed Medicare and Medicare Advantage Plan.

CMS funded a study conducted by RTI International that considered a few pilot programs designed to reduce the frequency of hospitalizations for long - term nursing home residents, especially those hospitalizations considered «avoidable.»

These states, as well as many of the remaining states, have pilot programs designed to introduce and test the concept of choice.

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Living Goods has also provided technical assistance to Marie Stopes International, which was working to create a community health worker network in Kenya, 54 and to the Clinton Foundation, to help design a pilot in Peru for an entrepreneurship program.55

The summit will also mark the launch of pilot programs in six communities around the country — each coordinated by a university - based athletic training educator, clinician and researcher — designed to test MomsTEAM's innovative SmartTeam ™ program.

This survey was designed to capture students» response to the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program that was used to pilot farm to school items.

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.

An IH - designed pilot program in which third - party nurse - experts review EFM tracings to provide objective consultations has shown promising results.

At 11 a.m., Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, other lawmakers and violence prevention advocates introduce the «Jessica Tush Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program,» a pilot Common Core education program scheduled to begin this month at K. 558 Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, 257 N. Sixth St., BrProgram,» a pilot Common Core education program scheduled to begin this month at K. 558 Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, 257 N. Sixth St., Brprogram scheduled to begin this month at K. 558 Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, 257 N. Sixth St., Brooklyn.

The governor was immediately condemned by government reform groups who said the pilot program was cynically designed to fail.

Vandewalker: Public Financing «Pilot» Program Designed to Implode Writing in Newsday, Ian Vandewalker, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, praised New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for opting out of the state's poorly crafted public financing «pilot» proPilot» Program Designed to Implode Writing in Newsday, Ian Vandewalker, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, praised New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for opting out of the state's poorly crafted public financing «pilot» pProgram Designed to Implode Writing in Newsday, Ian Vandewalker, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, praised New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for opting out of the state's poorly crafted public financing «pilot» propilot» programprogram.

An employee pilot project, which is part of the campaign designed to combat obesity and improve health outcomes among Oneida and Herkimer County residents by promoting physical exercise and encouraging proper nutrition, got underway today at the Function Better Fitness center, a co-sponsor of the program.

County to Conduct Paint Stabilization Pilot Study «Method of Cost - Effective Interim Lead Hazard Control Sought» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program (LPP), through its New York State Department of Health grant, will conduct a pilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced tPilot Study «Method of Cost - Effective Interim Lead Hazard Control Sought» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program (LPP), through its New York State Department of Health grant, will conduct a pilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced tpilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced today.

Despite Cuomo's bluster, all we ended up with is a flawed pilot program seemingly designed to recruit a Republican challenger to Tom DiNapoli.

After returning to Argentina in late April, he has been finalizing recommendations to be presented in the fall detailing how Argentina will set up, design, fund, track and evaluate a science policy fellowship program that is expected to get underway in earnest with a pilot project placing five scientists in select agencies in 2018.

To tackle this problem, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will begin a pilot program this month to test multiband radios designed to let responders communicate across a number of different radio frequencies.

«We are considering expanding the existing pilot programs into surrounding areas and link up those regional carbon markets; if that fails, the central government will then design a nationwide emissions trading scheme and allocate allowances to each region,» said Xu, the government official involved in the national carbon market buildup.

This mentoring program was piloted for a year by pairing the DCAAN volunteer corporate executives with recently employed minority engineers enrolled in our graduate - engineering program, while serving in rotating assignments designed to accelerate career development.

The investigators said the infants participating in the pilot program won't undergo any additional blood sampling since the new screening test is designed to utilize the standard dried blood spot samples already collected from all babies born in the United States.

A pilot program would provide an opportunity to refine the program's design and implementation before enrolling every borrower automatically.

A new program designed to improve primary school children's attention and memory has produced significant improvements in maths and spelling, according to an evaluation of a pilot program in thirteen classes across six schools.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & UccePilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccepilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

And so, the idea here is that this pilot program was designed to encourage some districts to model out a new approach to administering federal aid.

EN: Can we generalize the results from well - designed, generously funded pilot programs to large - scale efforts at the state or national level?

While still a year away from launching the pilot program of the nonprofit, Hecker spends his time designing the curriculum, networking, and fundraising.

Mathematica is designing an evaluation framework and pilot data system that would enhance the National Science Foundation's ability to monitor the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program and to conduct evaluations with increasing level of rigor in the future.

As part of the Education Innovation Fellowship, each Fellow designs a summer pilot program that uses personalized and blended learning to solve a...

To avoid initiative fatigue and help teachers implement Colorado State Standards — the state's version of the Common Core State Standards — they created extensive support systems like SchoolVault, an online formative assessment tool, and pilot programs to provide trainings for Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) and Math Design Collaborative (MDC).

Designed to set more Boston Public School students on the path to college, the College Success Academy provides after - school and summer academic programming to students attending four Boston public K - 8 schools: the Donald McKay, the Jackson / Mann, the Edison, and the Gardner Pilot Academy.

Jonas is proud of all that the Leading Educators community has accomplished, having grown from a single pilot program in New Orleans to becoming an innovative learning and systems design partner of districts in twelve geographic areas.

At the end of May, LEAP Innovations brought together schools from our Breakthrough, Pilot Network, and other programs for a professional development session from Wonder by Design, national experts in innovative school space.

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Coaching will focus on supporting the successful design and implementation of pilot programs and helping Fellows to apply key learnings to their pilots.

Fellows will design and lead personalized learning pilot programs during the spring or summer of 2016 and will expand them in their classrooms and schools in the 2016 - 17 school year.

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Powers, the kindergarten teacher at Cox who put tremendous thought into designing growth targets for the pilot program, was also frustrated with the top - down approach.