Sentences with phrase «provided local examples»

Throughout the briefing, panelists provided local examples of how the federal investment in education has been paying dividends in their communities while urging members of Congress and their staff to protect education from the cuts proposed in the president's budget.

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Navarro called the move «courageous» and said it provided an example of what the U.S. government wants to accomplish: more consumer purchasing from local manufacturers to support the economy.

Dan Gilbert, CEO of Quicken Loans, for example, moved his company's headquarters to downtown Detroit to bolster the population numbers and help jumpstart the local economy, then provided further sustenance to the commercial ecosystem by opening a new start - up incubator and venture capital firm.

These banks could play an important role in plugging the leaks of the local economy, providing another home for local savings, for example, slowing the outflow of money into London and international financial institutions, speculative lending, derivatives and other aspects of «financialisation».

[3] Local office branch managers at Charles Schwab Corporation, for example, call back customers to engage them in a discussion about the feedback they provided through the NPS survey process, solve problems, and learn more so they can coach account representatives.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

Take for example, the case of a school nurse putting up posters with contact details for local sexual health services that provide contraception and abortion services.

He says that where churches have become involved on a local level, providing food for example, this has spurred them into campaigning for change on a national level, which is what is really needed.

For example, WTVS - TV, the public TV station in Detroit, has a community center in the station to encourage local productions, provides a 24 - hour - a-day job listing on local cable TV, provides an «electronic town meeting» on many local community issues, and has several local storefronts with TV cameras for local input.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

In Worcester, for example, a local congregation provided some of the critical gap - financing for the rehabilitation of two buildings containing 11 apartments with an interest - free, five - year loan for $ 15,000.

«The buyer's (and his or her family's) social networks within the local community also provide a broader range of options for «punishment», with examples provided to the study including social isolation, physical intimidation and sometimes violence.»

Ton Mulgrew, BBC Cook of the Year and chef at Ravenscliffe High School, which provides a predominantly vegetarian menu, said: «This is a great opportunity for all school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.»

It is time for Australia to learn from the example of other countries and provide assistance to rebuild local food systems.»

Guidance Materials: The state Department of Education's sample policy language, «Examples of Policy Language for Local Wellness Policies» provides guidance to policymakers in selecting policy goals that suit their needs and assists them in meeting the federal requirements.,

«Together, with our national benefactors plus the support of the local business community and volunteers, we can meet our mission of providing a welcoming space that celebrates, nurtures and empowers the LGBT community and our friends and neighbors in South Florida while setting an example for other national organizations.»

Trainings will showcase water and land management best practices, successful examples from other communities, and will provide resources, advice, and support for local conservation, restoration, and sustainable development initiatives.

This section provides information for adoptive parents on why adopted people search, how to support adopted people who are searching, and how to start a search, including State and local examples.

This sort of small, local plant provides an example of «diversified» energy, which I believe Alan Duncan -LRB-?)

Edwards also provided examples of public agencies and state and local governments hiding incidents of high levels of lead in water without accountability across the United States, creating a false sense of security amongst people in cities.

In a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, for example, they found that special local hippocampal neurons called PV interneurons provide signals to DG newborn progeny that appear to be crucial for healthy neurogenesis.

The Stanley Arms is the perfect example of a local bar that provides a fantastic range of drinks with a warm and friendly atmosphere.

This example is one of the basic and primary principles in ensuring local communities to become closely involved with projects and planning, as it will enable all segments of the local society to support and benefit from the facilities that will be provided by the organisations who are seen as initiators.

For example, we have cultivated partnerships with a local bookstore and a church to provide monthly family activities for our students.

For example, earlier this year Mayor Baraka, the Newark City Council, school board members, the leaders of many charter organizations, education - related nonprofit groups, the Newark City Council, and several local and state representatives all signed a letter asking Christie to provide additional state aid.

«That's providing the opportunity for opponents of that change in high - stakes testing to use the Common Core and its implementation as a justification for delay,» West says, which is why «there are more and more examples of state and local [teachers» unions] coming out in strong opposition to the Common Core.»

«Australian companies tend to focus their activities within their local communities and with Indigenous [programs]... for example, law firm DLA Piper partners with The Smith Family, providing support for solely Indigenous Australian girls to get into the law profession.

At the start of a PBL assignment, teachers should provide students with clear and challenging criteria or guidelines for success, using rubrics and examples that demonstrate intended learning outcomes from local professionals or former students (Ertmer & Simons, 2005; Barron & Darling - Hammond, 2008).

For example, ParentPay provides secure online payments to over 5,000 schools across 165 local authorities in the UK.

Boston - based Citizen Schools, for example, provides highly regarded after - school instruction and career - based learning by arranging for local volunteers to work with students on a regular basis.

This Education Trends report, Beyond the Core: Advancing student success through the arts, explores research on how the arts bolster the development of deeper learning skills, provides examples of programs that successfully increased access to the arts in education in public schools, and includes state - and local - level policy considerations.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

We do the same, providing examples of how savvy chiefs have built new coalitions in the state Capitol, helped district leaders and innovators find ways through bureaucratic tangles, and facilitated collaborations at the local level.

For example, parents may have chosen a private or charter school that did not perform well on the state's standardized test overall, but the school may have provided a safer environment than the local district school.

However, demonstrating compliance with these federal fiscal requirements — for example, comparability, in which districts must show that they provide «comparable services» in high and low poverty schools through state and local dollars — as well as the specific rules that govern each federal program, can introduce unnecessary burdens that distract from the overall goal of providing additional support to low - income schools and disadvantaged students.

Students should investigate local examples (specific to their own contexts) as well as examples provided below.

This article provides one example of how an elementary teacher and a teacher educator have used local resources and problem - based learning to teach a fourth grade unit about human communities and the history of the local area.

This Education Trends report explores research on how the arts bolster the development of deeper learning skills, provides examples of programs that successfully increased access to the arts in education in public schools, and includes state - and local - level Read more about Advancing Student Success through the Arts -LSB-...]

Race to the Top winners will help trail - blaze effective reforms and provide examples for States and local school districts throughout the country.

Some Senators have suggested local districts are misusing their classroom funding, although GOP lawmakers have not provided any examples of actual wrongdoing by districts, which say they've long used flexibility over K - 3 class sizes to retain arts, music and P.E. educators.

The report also offers examples of local CTE programs successfully integrating global concepts through partnerships, projects and other student experiences and provides examples of global topics that are relevant to each of the 16 career clusters.

We describe these methods briefly here and provide an example of how several of these strategies (peer review, benchmark checks, and assessor training) are used in the Nebraska assessment system, which relies on local assessment systems to complement the state's large - scale assessments.

In addition to the research cited above that provides a clear rationale for what Barnett Berry terms «teacher - powered» schools, CTL sought local examples of teacher - directed leadership, professional learning and collaboration that are having a positive effect not only on teachers themselves, but on student achievement and school culture.

For example, online webinars and seminars will allow state board members to interact directly with leading researchers, local practitioners and state policymakers who will provide comprehensive perspectives on considerations across the nation to prepare students for 21st century demands.

It also offers strategies for building and supporting capacity at the local level to facilitate adoption of the ILP process and provides examples of how to ensure that ILPs are implemented with quality.

The purposes of the chapter are to advocate for the professional development of education technology directors, administrators, and leaders of North Carolina; elevate the professional practice of education technology leaders by coordinating and providing professional development, peer networking, and collaborative opportunities for members; support education technology leaders in providing visionary leadership, sound research, and best - in - class examples and case studies; and foster collaborative teams with other professions (e.g. curriculum, finance) to coordinate strategic leadership for North Carolina Local Education Agencies.

West Virginia and Philadelphia provide examples of how cooperation between state boards, local law enforcement officials, the mental health community, and educators can lead to success in school discipline policy reform.

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

Local leaders must also, for example, be able to help their colleagues understand how the externally - initiated reform might be integrated into local improvement efforts, provide the necessary supports for those whose practices must change and must win the cooperation and support of parents and others in the local commuLocal leaders must also, for example, be able to help their colleagues understand how the externally - initiated reform might be integrated into local improvement efforts, provide the necessary supports for those whose practices must change and must win the cooperation and support of parents and others in the local commulocal improvement efforts, provide the necessary supports for those whose practices must change and must win the cooperation and support of parents and others in the local commulocal community.

For example, the school collaborated with the University of Colorado's medical school on a biology curriculum, and has reached out the local art groups that can provide guest lecturers in their areas of specialty.