Sentences with phrase «priority areas such»

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Northwest Comprehensive Center (NWCC) provides high - impact training and technical assistance to SEA staff in planning, implementing, monitoring, and sustaining initiatives in priority areas such as college and career readiness, educator effectiveness, school improvement, and rigorous, college - and career - ready standards implementation.

One priority must be to ensure that the inevitable focus on setting up new performance related pay systems doesn't deviate attention away from other priority areas such as the safeguarding agenda.

She added other priority areas such as energy sector especially renewables as well as infrastructure sector such as roads, railways, ports, airports, public housing and real estate development, manufacturing and Industry, mining industrial salt, gold, bauxite and iron ore and tourism, ICT and in the financial services sector especially equity financing.

Not exact matches

«The difficulty the Republican majority is having addressing a key political priority suggests that lawmakers might ultimately need to scale back their ambitions in other areas as well, such as tax reform.»

ECU's focus on identifying opportunities in priority or high growth areas such as nursing, education, communications, environmental studies, law and security and entertainment and culture is also unique, Professor Poole says.

Accompany's AI technology and talent will help Cisco accelerate priority areas across its collaboration portfolio, such as providing user and company profile data in Webex meetings.

Where a dollar can be saved in an area of lower priority, it will be redirected to help sustain high - priority areas, such as health, education and job creation.

Our new relationship could also include specific areas of common interest such as nuclear safety, collaboration in the Arctic, and fostering technology and business tie - ups in promoting green growth (a Korean priority) and energy efficiency.

As with some other areas of policy, such as climate change and immigration, California's priorities in the area of international trade differ substantially from those of the Trump Administration.

Advancing a modernization agenda such as this should be a top priority, but it carries risks if not carefully managed.In areas where management is looking for change, it will be important to not seek unnecessary confrontation and to ensure that union leaders and members are treated with respect in the bargaining process.

«This partnership also opens the door to future cooperation in some of Australia's priority industries, including emerging digital service delivery areas such as e-health, financial services, sporting event management and assisting innovative startup companies,» Clifton said.

You would be looking at a fee of around # 5 million so it could be done, but will that area of the squad be such a priority for Leeds?

Matt Hopkinson, a spokesperson for the UK's Department of Education and Skills, says that although currently there isn't a teacher shortage as such, science and maths are still priority areas.

The extent of both government and private - sector spending will also depend on how much of Puerto Rico can be rebuilt, and whether some areas — such as the capital, San Juan — should be given priority while more rural areas are left to be rebuilt using local resources.

The researchers are using «big data» concepts and techniques to discover and design new nanomaterials — a priority area under the White House's Materials Genome Initiative — using a methodology that will revolutionize materials design, impacting a broad range of products that affect our daily lives, from drugs and agricultural chemicals such as pesticides or herbicides to fuel additives, paints and varnishes, and even personal care products such as shampoo.

The first priority, he says, should be strong conservation efforts — an area in which the United States lags far behind such countries as Japan.

• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

Supporting focused research based on priorities of immediate clinical relevance to Australians, and in key areas such as Indigenous health, rural and remote health, and application of genomics to personalised medicine

The high waist on those is such a flattering height, they fit really well in the tush area (always high on my list of denim fit priorities) and the cropped flare will be so much fun in the spring and summer with sandals or sneakers.

Philanthropy itself is vast and it was such a great opportunity to really try and tap into all these different perspectives through the LEAPP project to see where their passions lie, how they come to a view as to which priority areas they are seeking to focus on, and when we butt that up against what the not - for - profits are saying and what the schools are saying we are able to see where there are points of connection and disconnection.

A: I've given top priority to issues of equity and access for many disadvantaged groups, such as the illiterate, youth from remote rural areas, minority groups, the disabled, and children of migrant workers.

Coverage of areas specially conserved for biodiversity and ecosystem functions should be increased (at least to the Aichi Target 11 of 17 % terrestrial and 10 % marine area), with systems of conservation being democratized and based on integration of rights and responsibilities; in all kinds of land / water uses, activities that are ecologically damaging need to be modified or replaced; high priority should also be given to the regeneration and restoration of degraded ecosystems and the revival of populations of threatened species; equitable access (including through territorial and resource tenure) must be accorded to natural resources, with special focus on populations with high and direct dependence on such resources for their survival and livelihoods.

The Center for Educator Compensation Reform also noted that national foundations, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation — among others, have «declared performance pay to be among their funding priorities» in certain geographic areas (Guthrie & Prince, 2008).

We are interpreting the «maybe» to reflect such things as area for implementation, time of year, and whether other priorities may interfere with turning to their identified lead teachers.

IPAC's work will help identify opportunities, engage the community, and guide decisions in areas such as program needs and priorities, school facilities, and partnerships.

Currently MAISD receives an 80 % discount on priority one services such as Internet and Wide Area Network (WAN) connectivity.

The state's goal has been to come up with a system that will require schools and districts to measure how they are doing on eight «priority areas «ranging from test scores to less definable measures such as school climate.

But things become much clearer if we use resources like Achieve the Core's Instructional Practice Guides to transform the idea of «text - dependent questions» into a concrete and observable priority such as, «Teachers ask text - dependent questions that address challenging areas of the text, and scaffold students toward key understandings, leading to discussion and student writing.»

Canadian School Boards Association in its priorities for 2011 — 12 identifies the integration of emerging technologies into teaching and learning in Canadian classrooms, the creation of policy to promote classroom and community / industry connections, sustainability and partnerships and the promotion of research - based practices in Canadian classrooms that develop 21st century learning skills in areas such as literacy, communication, collaboration, critical - thinking and problem solving.

Others address key local priorities through a focus on clinical practice, such as the STEM HOUSE Undergraduate Clinical Experience in Elementary STEM Education; Project ExCEL: Elementary Science and Engineering in Local Contexts; and the ELLISA Project: English Language and Literacy Integration into Subject Areas.

Nevertheless, Committee members found the evidence on the impact of high - quality pre-K and third - grade reading so compelling that members recommended making difficult choices to prioritize these areas even at the potential expense of other K - 12 funding priorities, such as lowering class sizes, investing in teacher professional development, and improving classroom technology, that have not been shown to correlate as strongly with improved student outcomes, particularly for high - need students.

Car loan repayments are a priority because car finance companies will quickly repossess your car if you fall behind with the payments and this can impact on so many other areas of your life such as your ability to get to your place of employment.

Studies indicate there are significant shortages of food animal veterinarians in certain areas of the country, and in high - priority specialty sectors that require advanced training, such as food safety, epidemiology, diagnostic medicine and public health.

As such conservation activities remain an important priority in government policy with the notable example of having the only jaguar reserve in the world among its protected areas.

Such information is vital for setting policy priorities to promote inclusive, equitable and sustainable development for urban and rural areas alike.

These 17 Goals build on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals, while including new areas such as climate change, economic inequality, innovation, sustainable consumption, peace and justice, among other priorities.

Prioritising such a list also has its challenges, as so many needy areas see themselves as a priority when asked, and they are often well justified.

However, the shift to electronic research is sufficiently established — particularly in areas such as legislative research — that the priority given to print is often misplaced.

Another area that is high priority for my team is safeguarding the privacy of our over 429,000 members» personal information, especially with the increasing use of electronic communication (such as myOMERS).

Then, consider all areas where you have made contributions, such as special projects or assignments, new processes, suggestions for change, providing an extra «helping hand» without being asked, staying late or working extra to meet a deadline, determining priorities, helping coworkers, providing leadership, heading committees, etc..

Indigenous issues are not treated as a national priority, and there are no public commitments to timeframes for achieving results in areas on which there is substantial agreement - such as Indigenous disadvantage.

Yet what «practical reconciliation» also does is to conceive of these four priority areas as the «real issues», with other concerns such as recognition of rights to land and culture, and self - determination being «symbolic» and not of practical benefit.

This could potentially be valuable for people living in rural and remote areas, as fast, reliable and affordable digital access is an urgent and essential priority for business, schooling, professional training and recreational purposes — as well as for services such as telehealth.

There are programmes that can help support parents, infants and young children during the critical early years such as Nurse Family Partnership49, 50 and Triple P Positive Parenting Programme.51 These programmes, where found to be effective, have been associated with cost - savings.50 — 53 Importantly, such programmes require targeted application in the most deprived areas, and this should be a priority for those involved in violence prevention.

Strategies: Give priority to aged / disability care and men, women, child and youth health issues; enhance awareness of nutrition, hygiene and substance abuse; awareness of environmental health issues such as water, waste disposal and power; establish regional health «benchmark» data bank; participate in Mid North Coast Area Health Service and other stakeholder in relation to medical transport.

The SEC has a large number of inspections on the docket for 2016, and as such, funds» chief compliance officers should have a keen interest in gaining more insight into the areas that are a priority for regulatory professionals.