Sentences with phrase «positive change in the system»

I know the hard slog involved in achieving positive change in systems that do not prioritise issues the same way we do, and that do little to honour our knowledge, history and culture.

The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs has also worked with the Attorney - General and native title stakeholders to bring about positive change in the system, with a particular focus on maximising the benefits derived from native title agreements.

Not exact matches

«You can actually be mad at the system, and then use that disagreement to make a positive change in how the pay for the company is structured.

The other way is when a non-spontaneous system, one which is both endothermic and increases in order, to be coupled with a system which produces a greater negative Gibb's free energy change than the positive Gibb's free energy change of the non-spontaneous system.

If positive values tend to confirm relationships and negative values to fracture them, then the particular ways in which changes take place in the human scene will depend upon the systems of value which pertain.

I don't necessarily believe that the current system is beyond reform, there are some positive movements in this direction, but nothing short of a whole change of perception and thought is necessary; not something that can be achieved with just a little nudge and encouragement.

It was not clear from this review whether or not community efforts would lead to permanent changes in breastfeeding patterns; however, this analysis confirmed previous speculation regarding the presence of a supportive health system synergized with community efforts: those community interventions that were linked to positive health systems with breastfeeding support already in place appeared to have a greater impact on breastfeeding.

Hiring a house in order to be in the catchment for DOMINO homebirth, asking for a new health care professional in labour, changing hospitals, challenging policy — women are becoming more proactive in their approach of navigating the system in order to ensure that they get the most out of their maternity care and have a healthy positive birth experience.

Although the situation does not include a public keen for constructive change — there is no positive consensus on change in any particular direction — neither is it one of widespread happiness and trust in the existing system.

As we focus on all the pol nonsense here in NYS, Washington burns with a system that is probably more broke than the one in Albany and the hope and change that O was to bring to Washington continues to get churned up and trampled upon by the operatives that know how to block any positive initiative or make those that get by a bad thing.

«The Fortune Society applauds passage of Raise the Age and celebrates the positive impact that this policy change will have on the lives of young people who have gotten tangled in the criminal justice system.

It is not yet possible to tell whether the government's flagship academies policy has been «a positive force for change» in the English education system.

Although policy implementation often moves at a glacial pace, moving through committee after committee, I am optimistic about positive change within the UC system in the near future.

With data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System covering 1994 to 2011, the researchers analyzed fatal motor vehicle crashes in Colorado and in the 34 states that did not have medical marijuana laws, comparing changes over time in the proportion of drivers who were marijuana - positive and alcohol - impaired.

A decade - long focus on excellence has inspired positive change in the university system, commission says

So the natural extension of this paper's line of inquiry is how the positive and negative systems associated with cocaine use change when animals are exposed to multiple doses in any given day (i.e. addiction).

Positive Feedback Loop - A system in which one change promotes and enhances further change.

In all systems, whether pertaining to insects or mammals, they found a strong positive correlation between predator removal, plant community simplification, and reduced energy flow, which goes back to Paine's dictum about being able to change the world by removing one species.

And, it focuses our brain on what we really like, thereby (according to NLP practitioners) firing up the reticular activating system in our brains which helps us notice more clearly when we are headed in the right direction to create positive life change for ourselves.

Science has revealed that positive mental and emotional states actually forge changes in our nervous systems, creating new neural pathways, improving our immune systems, diminishing inflammation, improving sleep, increasing positive social interaction, increasing longevity, and flooding our brains with the feel good hormones dopamine and serotonin.

I have found that by boosting my immune system, as well as making other positive changes in my life, I overcame the disease.

In fact, only about 50 % of people infected with HIV develop AIDS, which indicates that other people who have also been infected with the virus have not had AIDS because they have a strong immune system due to positive diet and lifestyle changes.

Start - up business creating positive change in the health care system by offering placement services putting mental health professionals in physician's offices to be an essential component of the annual physical.

As a matter of fact, results of a comprehensive double - blind scientific study with The Original Himalayan Crystal Salt conducted at the Inter-University of Graz, Austria, demonstrated that the patients in the study who used Original Himalayan Crystal Salt «saw significant positive changes in respiratory, circulatory, organ, connective tissue and nervous system functions.»

The national Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools aims to improve the mental health of the next generation by supporting schools in making positive changes at all levels of the UK's education system.

In a spirit of promoting positive behavior intervention support systems (PBIS), this template is a great ay to change the way students get attention.

There's no shortage of bad news in education these days, nor any dearth of stasis, but at least education reform is a lively, forward - looking enterprise that gets positive juices flowing in many people and that is leading to promising changes across many parts of the K — 12 system.

Democratic governors, concerned about alienating their base, all too frequently avoided making hard decisions in the face of pressure from local politicians and activists — the same ones who had presided over the collapse of the system in the first place, and the same ones who to this day insist on turning serious discussion about positive change for children into a poisonous political circus in which the interests of children are often subordinated to adult concerns.

Ongoing participation in the community will be an important part of your continued implementation support system, and essential for long - term, sustainable success in bringing positive change to your school or district.

Multiple studies have demonstrated that organizations that prioritize a performance - management system that supports employees» professional growth outperform organizations that do not.25 Similar to all professionals, teachers need feedback and opportunities to develop and refine their practices.26 As their expertise increases, excellent teachers want to take on additional responsibilities and assume leadership roles within their schools.27 Unfortunately, few educators currently receive these kinds of opportunities for professional learning and growth.28 For example, well - developed, sustained professional learning communities, or PLCs, can serve as powerful levers to improve teaching practice and increase student achievement.29 When implemented poorly, however, PLCs result in little to no positive change in school performance.30

The hope is that educators and systems can institutionalize MTSS in ways that preserve the positive changes, and instill resilience to resist efforts to revert back to the old ways of doing things, and ultimately improve outcomes for all students!

Against a background of an increasingly autonomous school system, this kind of school - to - school support has a crucial role to play, so what evidence do we have so far about what works in these emerging collaborations to effect positive change?

You'll gain the skills to direct educational programs, implement policies and lead positive change in educational systems.

The most powerful strategy school systems have to impact the quality of instruction in classrooms is professional development that promotes the kind of systemic change that has a positive and permanent effect throughout an organization.

Faxon - Mills and colleagues (2013) found that performance - based assessments — like those promised in the new Common Core assessment systems — do have the potential to drive positive changes in teaching practices, including encouraging greater classroom emphasis on critical thinking and real - world problem solving.

This evidence - based, blended program will address multiple dimensions for transforming, creating, and sustaining a positive school culture and climate with a focus on training teams of elementary school staff (teachers, school mental health providers, and administrators) in the core concepts of social emotional learning, systems change, and coaching.

Articles like this one do not reflect the reality of our compliance practices and they completely ignore the larger mission of CCSA Advocates, which is to build political will for positive changes in the public education system that will help all students succeed.

At a time when we are working hard in California to implement positive changes that safeguard the quality public education all students deserve, this top - down waiver system which excludes teacher input and collaboration is counterproductive and divisive.

The decentralization experience of the Chicago public school system also contributed to the current interest in the role of districts as a positive force for change.

Vettese did say however that reducing the clawback rate (currently 15 %) could be a positive change since the current system is a real deterrent to staying in the work force past traditional retirement age.

Like we mentioned in the beginning, it's important to review current systems and make positives changes.

The theory suggests that the system is pushed by greenhouse gas changes and warming — as well as solar intensity and Earth orbital eccentricities - past a threshold at which stage the components start to interact chaotically in multiple and changing negative and positive feedbacks — as tremendous energies cascade through powerful subsystems.

«Positive feedbacks (self - reinforcing cycles) within the climate system have the potential to accelerate human - induced climate change,» says a section from that Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.»

Even in simple systems, small positive feedbacks can lead to stable situations as long as the «gain» factor is less than one (i.e. for every initial change in the quantity, the feedback change is less than the original one).

Water vapour is also the dominant positive feedback in our climate system and amplifies any warming caused by changes in atmospheric CO2.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

Now the Earth's climate system is a dynamic one, we can all agree on that, changing one process will often lead to a change in a connected process which may be a positive or negative effect.

Complexity theory suggests that the system is pushed by such things as solar intensity and Earth orbital eccentricities — past a threshold at which stage the components start to interact chaotically in multiple and changing negative and positive feedbacks — as tremendous energies cascade through powerful subsystems.

The study claims to have measured feedback, and have found feedback to temperature changes in the natural climate system to be negative — opposite of the assumption of strong positive feedback in climate models.

Conceptually — small changes in conditions precipitate non-linear responses in the system and the system shifts into a «new» state that is either warmer or cooler by amounts that, because of multiple negative and positive feedbacks, bear no linear relationships to the original control variable.