Sentences with phrase «scale development work»

In another example of large - scale development work, Nicholle Kingsley and senior associate Jamie Lockerbie are acting for Elephant & Castle Properties on the redevelopment of Elephant and Castle shopping centre and London College of Communication.

Not exact matches

Andrew Pask, a 44 - year - old City of Vancouver neighbourhood planner, says he and his colleagues are called in to work on files that range in scale from single - parcel development applications to regional strategies.

«There is major uncertainty in the market and federal agencies are not sure until the budget is passed and sequestration is resolved that they will continue, and they have really reduced the scale of work,» says Zia Islam, founder of Zantech IT Services, a McLean, Virginia - based company that has worked for NASA, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and other federal agencies.

In addition to the educational outreach work that I do, I have had the privilege of speaking at the following organizations and events about my experiences in self - development, resilience and scaling SunSaluter:

Building on this work, the Sustainable Finance Initiative, along with other partners, will test the development and the implementation of a small - scale multi-party technical assistance and investment facility that will eventually be scaled - up to finance 10,000 cocoa farm rejuvenation projects across Côte d'Ivoire.

has been involved as a private consultant in international horticultural development work since the 1980s, and has been specialising in postharvest technology, food loss reduction and the extension of information on small - scale postharvest handling practices since 1992 as Principal Consultant of the firm Extension Systems International.

She has been too cozy with developers at the South Street Seaport, too onboard with the Bloomberg administration's overzealous development and may not have worked hard enough to scale back N.Y.U.'s expansion.

We see this happening in Two Bridges, where I am actively working with residents to create tools to fight back against out - of - scale luxury development.

In a separate initiative, community groups are working on a rezoning in the Two Bridges area to prevent out - of - scale development.

We also have a large - scale biologics manufacturing facility in Rensselaer, New York, where we produce commercial and investigational products, and an office in Basking Ridge, New Jersey for some employees who work in our clinical development and biostatistics groups.

The technique, a new development — different from Zewail's Nobel Prize - winning work in femtochemistry, the visual study of chemical processes occurring at femtosecond scales — allowed researchers to observe directly the transitioning atomic configuration of a prototypical phase - change material, germanium telluride (GeTe), when it is hit by a femtosecond laser pulse.

The feathers were studied by Dr Maria McNamara (University of Bristol and University College, Cork) and Professor Michael Benton (University of Bristol), who has also worked on the feathers of Chinese dinosaurs, and Professor Danielle Dhouailly (Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France) who is a specialist on the development of feathers and scales in modern reptiles and birds.

If the method could be made to work for humans, he thinks it would be «relatively easy» to scale up development.

The work at PNNL was supported by the Materials Synthesis and Simulations across Scales (MS3) Initiative, a Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program at PNNL.

During the evening, the team highlighted the GM's work to support communities across the Sahel in climate resilient development, as part of the Great Green Wall initiative and its efforts to scale up the Great Green Wall Initiative, to jointly «Grow a World Wonder», since the Great Green Wall is part of the solution to many global challenges, including food security, conflict prevention and environmental migration.

According to Dr. Pan, «The three - day symposium will bring together the scientific community working on various aspects of research and development in TEM to encourage the exchange of ideas for the advancement and challenges in atomic scale imaging and spectroscopy.

Sponsors: This work was primarily supported by the Materials Synthesis and Simulation Across Scales (MS3) Initiative through the Laboratory Directed Research and Development fund at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

He leads the organization's work in development and implementation of cutting - edge normative policies and guidance, and of technical support to countries to scale up national responses to HIV and Hepatitis.

«Working together on this scale will bring us years closer to understanding this cruel disease, and to the development of new Alzheimer's treatments,» said Dr. Williams.

In this work, we describe the development of a large scale, comprehensive Monte Carlo simulator to model thermal transport in nanostructured materials with a large and arbitrary degree of hierarchical disorder.

The society's vision is to assemble a diverse network of stakeholders who will work to enable the scale up tools such as chemical compounds, the development of standards and the seamless integration of platform technologies with regulatory pathways.

The research and development effort at the IA includes most of the topics presently, and for the next decade, at the forefront of research in Astrophysics and Space Sciences, from the Solar System to the large - scale properties of the Universe, complemented by work on instrumentation and systems with potential use in Astronomy and Astrophysics projects.

To this end, his work often relies on anthropology and human history as much as it does on genome sequencing and computation, in order to decipher the subtle genetic signatures that appear when species undergo major events such as population bottlenecks, large - scale migration or dispersal events, or the development of resistance to disease.

We work across scales from the local to the global and across disciplinary boundaries in the broad fields of environment, society and politics and development.

Director John Crowley (Boy A, Intermission) does a very fine job with a good troupe of thespians, and while the film lacks a huge budget for large - scale action scenes, the more grounded developments definitely work in its favor in keeping a tenuous believability in what is mostly a story built on creative fantasy.

In 2004, I became involved in a professional development with SCALE, a group of educators and curriculum designers who were working on redesigning widely used curriculum to make it more inquiry based.

We worked with SCALE to take the Common Core State Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards, the Historical Thinking Standards, and other frameworks of cognitive skill development to create a comprehensive, developmentally tiered measure of the thinking skills required for college readiness.

Over much of 1998 and 1999, HGSE Research Associate Shari Tishman and fellow researchers at Harvard Project Zero (PZ) worked with the MoMA Department of Education to plan and complete a full - scale, formal evaluation of the Visual Thinking Curriculum (VTC), and lay the groundwork for the development of a revised version of the VTC.

The Center's work is conducted through carefully curated networks of collaborating practitioners, researchers, policymakers, parents, and philanthropists who are leveraging science to catalyze the development of new strategies to produce greater impacts at scale.

Our plans for implementing the proposed initiative will include the following activities: (1) continuing to build their evidence base to understand for whom their intervention works best and least, and in what contexts; (2) refining their program model with a sharp focus on producing the materials that will be needed to achieve successful replication at scale; (3) solidifying the commitment of the selected scaling champions (i.e., the person who will drive the continuing development of the intervention and its implementation at scale); and (4) building the infrastructure necessary to support effective scaling, including the development of a business plan and training support structure, along with the successful navigation of intellectual property issues.

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Talent Development Award is a one - time $ 500,000 grant intended to catalyze an organization's work, bring strategies to a broader scale, and amplify conversations around one approach to cultivating potential.

In addition to this grow - your - own program, Arkansas also supports the development of residency programs; piloting a three - year program for teacher candidates in charter schools with science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) degrees but no formal training; and working to scale up paraprofessional - to - teacher programs currently operating at three preparation programs in the state.

As the Council of Chief States School Officers» report Opportunities and Options: Making Career Preparation Work for Students recommended, states and districts need a «demand - driven» system for determining which educational programs and pathways warrant continued development and investment, and which should be scaled down or phased out.

Online programs are essential to teachers» development, especially when considering scale or reaching those teachers who live and work in rural areas and have limited access to PD.

Marques leads all finance, accounting, and human resource functions as well as leading work on budget development, pricing, and refining the business model as the organization scales.

After working to scale the impact of Equal Opportunity Schools, as the Senior Director of Programs serving as a member of the leadership team managing the organization's IT, product development, research, and analytics, Maile is returning her focus on the communities of Washington state and to her passion for science, technology, engineering, and especially math (STEM).

Assessments in the pilot programme will include rigorous written and oral assignments, completion of a professional development plan, participation in debate activities, a small - scale research or improvement project, and submission of a portfolio of videos of practice, work samples and reflections.

Assessments in the pilot programme will include rigorous written and oral assignments, completion of a professional development plan, participation in debate activities, a small - scale research or improvement project, and submission of a portfolio of videos of practice, work samples and reflections; full details are included in a later section of this guide.

Rob Gwynne, head of school development for the Church of England, said: «With all these large scale changes in mind the Church of England's education division is actively creating the capacity and the model to ensure the smooth transition and effective continuance of our work.

WestEd is a leader in moving research into practice by conducting research and development (R&D) programs, projects, and evaluations; by providing training and technical assistance; and by working with national, regional, state, and local policymakers and practitioners to carry out large - scale school improvement and innovative change efforts.

WestEd has been a leader in moving research into practice by conducting research and development (R&D) programs, projects, and evaluations; by providing training and technical assistance; and by working with policymakers and practitioners at state and local levels to carry out large - scale school improvement and innovative change efforts.

Mrs. Grant brings a strong pedagogical and technological background, extensive experience and expertise in the design and development of professional learning, as well as experience working with districts across North America to support large scale implementation.

(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.

ST Math, Success for All, New Teacher Center, UTeach and NISL Executive Development Program Selected As Part of Roundtable Effort to Scale Up Initiatives that Work

Thanks to great groups of Harvard students who took my survey design course and worked on scale development projects with me over many years, I think we now have a pretty good process for designing survey scales.

Since the development of the Interim Report, MCPS staff has been working to implement identified improvements in facilities and practices as well as to analyze next steps for structuring larger scale, systemwide recommendations.

Before joining Education Development Trust, Patrick worked with the British Council for 23 years; he is expert in programme leadership and the management of multiple large - scale projects across wide and diverse geographies.

Much of Mike's work supports school and district leaders in planning and implementing large - scale improvement initiatives, visioning, understanding change and its effect on people, evaluating school improvement progress, designing exceptional professional development, and engaging people in productive, relationship - rich, results - based conversations.

Furthermore, adding automotive diesel engine technology to its lift truck engine and industrial machinery fields will enable TICO to both expand the scale of its business and improve the efficiency of its development work.

Android 4.0 marks a major shift in the way the operating system works as the goal is to minimize fragmentation across devices while also providing a universal approach to app development, with apps and hardware developed around 4.0 expected to seamlessly scale from the current mobile phone and tablet hardware templates into the goal of a universal platform that can allow for apps to work across devices without the need to code for specific devices.