Sentences with phrase «promotes social collaboration»

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The Proxy Preview 2015 report was produced via collaboration between As You Sow, a nonprofit organization that promotes corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy and innovative legal strategies; the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), which conducts impartial research on social and environmental share - holder proposals; and Proxy Impact, a shareholder advocacy and proxy voting service for foundations, endowments and socially responsible investors.

Move Forward New York is a citizen action group committed to promoting social justice, preserving civil rights, and ensuring environmental conservation by encouraging participation in the political process on all levels through education, collaboration, and activism.

It will bring together expert social, biological and medical scientists to take forward thinking and explore the opportunities for promoting co-operation and collaboration between scientists and social scientists in the field of epigenetics The symposium is being organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with support from the Genomics Forum, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Bsocial, biological and medical scientists to take forward thinking and explore the opportunities for promoting co-operation and collaboration between scientists and social scientists in the field of epigenetics The symposium is being organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with support from the Genomics Forum, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Bsocial scientists in the field of epigenetics The symposium is being organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with support from the Genomics Forum, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BSocial Research Council (ESRC) with support from the Genomics Forum, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

The article, titled «Sexual dimorphism in striatal dopaminergic responses promotes monogamy in social songbirds» is a collaboration of researchers from three City University of New York (CUNY) institutions — Hunter College, the Graduate Center, and City College — as well as Weill Cornell Medicine and Houston Methodist Research Institute.

Discrimination based on sex, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, national origin, age, or sexual orientation is contrary to the view of science as a collegial process which promotes cooperation and collaboration and in which work is judged without regard to the personal or social attributes of individual scientists.

A new center has been established at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to promote connections and collaborations between researchers focused on human social behavior.

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 & Uccelli).

Social capital exists where these interactions promote trust, reciprocity, support and collaboration.

We need effective and fair school discipline, with schools creating and nurturing a climate and culture that promote positive behavior, and we need targeted, consistent collaboration between the education, justice, and social service systems, as well as the communities they serve.

The website promotes cross-curricular collaboration by integrating nonfiction writing, geography, social studies, and technology while offering students a chance to discover different cultures and meet new friends from across the globe.

ASCD calls on policymakers to offer healthy, nutritious meals to all students; to foster greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and the health sector to improve each child's cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development; and to promote the components of a coordinated school health model so that students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

In addition, we seek to provide leadership, advocacy and technical assistance to promote collaboration between parents, teachers, students and the larger community to ensure that all children develop the academic and social skills that provide a foundation for the challenges of high school and the skills necessary for college and careers in the 21st century.

In collaboration with Devereux team members, Susan professional career over the past twenty - two years has focused on the development and publication of resilience - based resources that are currently used in all 50 states and internationally to promote the healthy social and emotional development of young children and the adults who care for them.

As the consumption - based model of technology integration transitions to a participatory approach and technology transitions from a tool for accessing information to a tool to (a) support student authoring and creativity, (b) facilitate collaboration, communication, and social learning, (c) allow for more efficient organization and accumulation of resources, (d) provide venues for student voices through publication and sharing, and (e) support student immersion in learning environments, educators also transition from «extending learning beyond what could be done without technology» (Mason et al., 2000) to «use technologies to promote effective student learning» (Hicks et al., 2014) In the revisioning of the first principle, the authors did a commendable job of affording increased value to range of tools, methods, content, abilities, and varied contexts of social studies classrooms.

Collaboration among general education and special education teachers promotes academic and social success for their students (McLaren et al., 2007; Thousand & Villa, 2000).

In addition to collaborations with institutions of higher education and workforce, family and community engagement is essential to the alignment of programs that are designed to promote content interest and expertise, social and emotional growth, and other behaviors that contribute to postsecondary success (Forum for Youth Investment, 2010).

Teaching Channel supports educators in the continuous improvement of their practice by breaking the isolation barrier and promoting collaboration through the use of online social tools.

THIS ARTICLE TELLS THE STORY of a long collaboration in the service of developing, testing quasi-experimentally, revising, testing experimentally, and now scaling efforts to promote children's social, emotional, and academic learning in schools.

The Gallery's programming encompasses exhibiting, museum collaborations, art fair participation, public art projects, artist residencies, academic publications and social engagement, aiming to promote awareness, recognition and access to Chinese culture.

Like a good deal of Neo-Dada work, Cage's mixed - media compositions and his collaborations with the dancer Merce Cunningham, promoted the importance of accident and experiment and celebrated the social environment.

The mission of this foundation is to research, document and protect the creative legacy of the artist and also to promote his uniquely valuable works through many channels, such as education, online sources and social networks.The foundation has recently published, in collaboration with the University of California Press, a Catalogue Raisonne and Panel Paintings, a 1946 — 1994 catalog of Francis» works, which consists of a printed book and 2 DVDs.

Mechanicville Recreation Summer Program, Mechanicville • NY 2003 — 2007 Camp Counselor and Lifeguard Provided recreation summer program oversight and effectively promoted social and living skills and instruction on team collaboration.

2008 Fact Sheet: Improving Health Care of Children in Foster Care: An Ongoing Collaboration (PDF - 32 KB) Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (2008) Discusses the health and mental health challenges faced by foster youth and the collaboration between the Washington State Health and Recovery Services Administration and the Children's Administration to promote the healthy development of children inCollaboration (PDF - 32 KB) Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (2008) Discusses the health and mental health challenges faced by foster youth and the collaboration between the Washington State Health and Recovery Services Administration and the Children's Administration to promote the healthy development of children incollaboration between the Washington State Health and Recovery Services Administration and the Children's Administration to promote the healthy development of children in foster care.

views school - home collaboration as a key for promoting student achievement and social - emotional - behavioural well - being.

Home Visiting and the Biology of Toxic Stress: Opportunities to Address Early Childhood Adversity Garner (2013) Pediatrics, 132 (2) Offers a public health approach to building critical caregiver and community capacities to minimize the effects of childhood adversity with a focus on expanding collaboration between caregivers and communities to promote the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships that buffer toxic stress and strengthen the social - emotional, language, and cognitive skills needed to develop healthy, adaptive coping skills.

Social media tools can promote collaboration with adoption agencies, advocates, and organizations and connect them to important information and services.

The main components are 1) teacher - guided learning and problem - solving in small groups in which children are stimulated to verbalize their plans and evaluate the problem solving, 2) peer collaboration in play and problem - solving, with children alternating the role of tutor, 3) the use of memory aids symbolizing social rules, such as attentive listening and waiting for one's turn; and 4) sociodramatic play to promote emotional self - regulation.

Not only will they give kids valuable practice in social and emotional skills but they will promote inclusion, collaboration and trust.

VPO major functions are: (a) Coordination of the development, implementation, and evaluation of two major programs: the ACT / Raising Safe Kids Program (parenting skills training and child maltreatment prevention program) and The Effective Providers for Child Victims of Violence Program (training for mental health and other professionals on trauma, assessment tools and treatment models for children victimized by violence); (b) Development of training and educational materials, technical assistance and training to professionals and organizations participating in both programs; (c) Dissemination of research - based knowledge, information, and materials to professionals and the general public on violence, prevention and related topics through Web (www.actagainstviolence.apa.org), Facebook page www.Facebook.com/ACTRaisingSafeKids and other social media outlets; (d) Collaboration with other national associations, national collaboratives, and federal agencies to promote the contributions of psychology and psychologists to the understanding and prevention of violence.

Strategies: Promote collaboration on specific issues (such as health, mental health, youth, elderly, domestic violence) among diverse interest groups in communities; identify and publicise successful cases of community based solutions and positive management of social development; support community based advocacy of school curriculum and practices; boost mentoring, homework support and family support for Indigenous secondary and post - secondary students; negotiate with stakeholders to improve school to work transitions programs.

We also serve communities that promote social, economic, racial and environmental justice, helping participants, employees and leaders with custom - designed, culturally sensitive, integrative training that enhances wellbeing, builds self - care skills, counteracts compassion fatigue and burnout, and promotes collaboration, success, and sustainability.

The goals and activities of the Center were designed to strengthen the capacity of childcare agencies and Head Start to improve outcomes for young children and their families through: a) a focus on promoting the social emotional development of children as a means for preventing challenging behaviors, b) a comprehensive, culturally sensitive approach that is inclusive of and responsive to the needs of programs, families, other professionals, and communities, c) the dissemination of evidence - based practices: d) the ongoing identification of the training needs and preferred delivery formats of local programs and training and technical assistance providers, and e) collaboration with existing training and technical assistance providers for the purpose of ensuring the implementation and sustainability of practices at the local level.

Similarly, the Tools of the Mind (Tools) is a preschool program intended to promote academic functioning and self - regulation among children from vulnerable families by emphasizing problem solving in small groups, peer collaboration in play, social rules through memory aids and sociodramatic play.

School psychologists promote the academic, social, emotional, and behavioral adjustment of students through collaboration with educators and other professionals, families, and community stakeholders.