Sentences with phrase «significant focus of his practice»

Since the late 1990s, Ladd has devoted a significant focus of his practice on assisting clients who are going through a Business Divorce.

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In addition, a significant part of his practice focuses on the needs of both prospective and current parenting partners in a co-parenting relationship.

«Importantly, whilst the community can not control extreme weather hazard, it can exert significant power over its exposure and vulnerability through appropriate regulation and development practice,» says the ICA submission, adding that primary efforts should be focused on mitigating measures aimed at reducing the «brittleness» of the built environment.

The focused soft gaze is a significant part of the Ashtanga practice.

Granted, if you are coming to the game with significant metabolic damage from decades of carbohydrate dependency, or not paying attention to some common sense best practices, such as choosing healthy foods instead of blindly focusing on macros, you will likely struggle with something as stringent as keto.

At the same time, schools and school leaders have focused significant resources on improving the quality of «teaching and learning practice».

Human judgment is very much part of its evaluation system, which itself is part of a larger effort focused on sound hiring practices and significant feedback and supports for educators.

To this end, our current work plan is focused on three core objectives: (1) To build a dynamic «Frontiers of Innovation» community composed of scientists, scholars, policymakers, policy analysts, practitioners, and other creative individuals who are motivated to engage in the kind of transformational thinking that is needed to break down disciplinary barriers and catalyze significant change in early childhood policy and practice.

Finally, the letter contains a significant appendix of «illustrative» specific suggestions for policy and practice that could serve to help states and districts avoid violations, urging schools to reduce the use of suspension and other forms of exclusionary discipline, focusing instead on positive approaches.

In particular, the paper examines his practice and focuses on his incorporation of educational technology (the Internet, multimedia technology, and word - processing applications) to achieve his pedagogical goals while teaching in a school with significant technology resource constraints.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

Once a framework had been established, committee tasks were to then: (1) «zoom in» and break down specific targeted sections of the draft LPFs into what we called more detailed «mini progressions» for a smaller grade span, often adding some additional «interim steps» (progress indicators) to the mini progressions; (2) use the more detailed and focused mini progressions to design sample instructional modules (with a series of 4 ‐ 6 detailed lessons) illustrating how a teacher in the general education classroom might move students along this smaller grain ‐ sized learning progression using best practices in instruction; and (3) draw from best practices in instruction for students with significant cognitive disabilities to incorporate suggestions to each lesson plan for how to make the academic content more accessible for all students.

State and federal policy makers are increasingly focusing on the quality of leadership preparation and practice in K - 12 education, and they are creating policies that have significant implications for colleges and schools of education where these leaders are being prepared.

This collaboration focuses on the process of thinking and learning among teachers, creates a common thread that brings staff together, and values the teacher as the instructional decision - maker within the classroom, resulting in significant improvement in teacher practice and an increased desire to continue to grow professionally.

The framework shares, in practical language, the critical practices of successful school turnaround in four domains, or areas of focus, that research and experience suggest are central to rapid and significant improvement: turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shift.

In contrast, the approach under waivers, dubbed turnaround, was much more focused — applying only to the 5 percent of schools identified as «priority» schools and based on key principles outlined by the Department (see sidebar Turnaround Principles).62 Fewer schools were part of the effort, but in turn, the effort was much more intensive and required significant changes in school operations, culture, leadership, and practice.63 The hope was that a more disruptive and ambitious strategy will yield dramatic results: after three years, these schools would no longer be in the bottom 5 percent, and another group of schools could be identified to undergo turnaround.

The authors suggest that the literacy coach begin by connecting a new initiative to current practice to validate teachers» prior efforts, choose generative practices that raise important questions about teaching, establish teaching credentials by spending significant amounts of time teaching in the classroom, focus teacher training on student learning, use a repertoire of coaching strategies, and get into the habit of regularly videotaping and reviewing lessons and demonstrations.

Our focus is the management of patients with significant disease or those presented for complex procedures that would pose an unacceptable risk in a general veterinary practice.

The areas identified are based on high cattle - to - veterinarian ratios, demographics indicating that many of the current food animal veterinarians are older and have limited their practice, or are retired, and the number of practices which have a significant food animal focus but only one veterinarian, despite recruitment attempts.

The areas identified are based on high cattle - to - veterinarian ratios, demographics indicating that many of the current food animal veterinarians are older and have limited their practice or are retired and the number of practices that have a significant food animal focus but only one veterinarian despite recruitment attempts.

More significant than its imaginary world was the way Counter-Strike pushed multiplayer gun games closer towards the player practices of sports, with tightly focussed play over a series of rounds involving (from the counter-terrorist perspective) either hostage rescue or bomb disposal that lead to winning an overall match.

Focused solo exhibitions of work by Edward and Nancy Kienholz, Senga Nengudi, and Hélio Oiticica respectively bring to light significant periods of each artist's work, providing renewed understandings of their practices and underscoring the museum's commitment to developing new scholarship in post-war and contemporary art.

Pratt Institute's M.F.A. Painting and Drawing Curriculum offers students a broad but rigorous studio practice, highlighting students» individual development and focusing on an understanding of the significant concerns that constitute contemporary art today.

Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei, developed by The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, and the National Gallery of Victoria, with the participation of Ai Weiwei, explores the significant influence of these two artists on modern and contemporary life, focusing on the parallels, intersections, and points of difference between their practices — Warhol representing 20th - century modernity and the «American century,» and Ai representing life in the 21st century and what has been called the «Chinese century» to come...

Focused solo exhibitions of work by Edward and Nancy Kienholz, Senga Nengudi, and Hélio Oiticica bring to light significant periods of each artist's work and provide renewed understandings of their practices.

A collaborative project between National Gallery of Victoria, The Andy Warhol Museum, and Ai Weiwei, this volume is the first to explore the significant influence of Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei on art, life, and politics, focusing on the parallels and intersections between their practices.

Performing the roles of scientist and explorer in addition to that of an artist, Dion's artistic practice incorporates and appropriates aspects of ecology, archaeology, biology, ethnography and history, and often focuses on the taxonomic principles of ordering, collecting, and exhibiting — practices that are significant to the art world as well.

«As the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore is committed to showcasing significant trends, as well as the best examples of contemporary art practice, Zooming into Focus was an ideal exhibition for us to organize at the gallery.

Will focus on the current international situation of the non-figurative panel painting with about sixty artistic positions and will fan out the wide field of a still significant painter's practice.

The exhibition explores the significant influence of these two exemplary artists on modern art and contemporary life, focusing on the parallels, intersections and points of difference between the two artists» practices.

The new combined facility of the Govett - Brewster and Len Lye Centre will offer a unique and independent curatorial voice given its dual focus on both contemporary international art practice, and the Len Lye Collection and Archive as a significant Modernist single - artist collection.

In the last years, the main focuses of the collection have been: Significant works by international contemporary artists; Original works, documentation and ephemera of conceptual practices from the 1960s to the 1980s; relevant Catalogues, Artist Books, Magazines, LPs, Cassettes and Monographs that help contextualize the works that compose the collection.

Artists selected for Solo Shows have the opportunity to present a focused body of work making a significant statement of the issues and aesthetics that drive their practice.

The first ever focused examination of Judd's production in Cor - ten steel, this exhibition aims to elucidate this group of significant works and, by extension, Judd's practice overall.

If this serves to focus the mind of lazy scientists and clean up sloppy practice in university departments, it is a significant and «democratising» addition to the «peer» review process.

He has significant management experience as well as strong understanding of international markets gained from a practice focusing on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, privatization, and corporate governance.

However, the Principles are not intended to place significant focus on records management (RM) or the importance or desirability of appropriate RM practices so as to be properly prepared for litigation, or on issues related to the integrity of information systems under Evidence Acts, or on the substantive law related to the admissibility of electronic records into evidence.

«Obviously, given the constant shuffle of attorneys in and out of the president's legal team, one would be reticent to focus a significant portion of your practice on representing the president, only to find yourself on the sidelines a short time later because the president saw someone he liked better on Fox News,» Boss said.

Much of his practice focuses on large - scale commercial litigation, often with a significant international element, involving conflicts of law and foreign law systems as well as issues of jurisdiction.

In recent years, a significant portion of our practice has focused on the identification and correction of plan compliance issues and the effective utilization of the correction programs sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Labor (DOL).

The firm focused primarily on the representation of individuals in litigation, but it also had a significant practice in representing governmental entities.

The Report's central conclusion is that, although traditional legal pedagogy is very effective in certain aspects, it overemphasizes legal theory and underemphasizes practical skills and professional development.5 By focusing on theory in the abstract setting of the classroom, the Report argues, traditional legal education undermines the ethical foundations of law students and fails to prepare them adequately for actual practice.6 Traditional legal education is effective in teaching students to «think like lawyers,» but needs significant improvement in teaching them to function as ethical and responsible professionals after law school.7 As I will discuss in greater detail below, in general, the Report recommends «contextualizing» and «humanizing» legal education by integrating clinical and professional responsibility courses into the traditional core curriculum.8 In this way, students will learn to think like lawyers in the concrete setting of actual cases and clients.9 The Report refers to pedagogical theories developed in other educational settings and argues that these theories show that teaching legal theory in the context of practice will not only better prepare students to be lawyers, it will also foster development of a greater and more deeply felt sense of ethical and professional identity.10

A significant focus of our real estate practice is the representation of real estate developers in numerous development projects in the New York metropolitan area and throughout the New York region, with an emphasis on shopping centers.

Seven major practice areas - corporate, energy and environmental, financial services, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, and tax - provide the framework for an extensive range of focus areas, allowing Sutherland attorneys to serve a diverse client base that ranges from small and medium - sized start - up businesses to a significant number of Fortune 100 companies.

«The focus of this blog is to provide relevant information and insight concerning decisions from Arkansas appellate courts and significant developments in appellate practice in Arkansas.»

Seven major practice areas — corporate, financial services, energy and environmental, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, and tax — provide the framework for an extensive range of focus areas, allowing Sutherland attorneys to serve a diverse client base that ranges from small and medium - sized start - up businesses to a significant number of Fortune 100 companies.

A significant part of Ji - In's practice has been focused on legal malpractice matters.

While a significant focus of civil justice reform has been on the cost and delay of discovery, IAALS has heard the call for reform in the area of motions practice as well, which can similarly result in great cost and delay to the parties.

And a significant percentage of the practitioners in those practice settings, and of the scholars focused on those meat - and - potato fields, are women and people of color.

As a senior associate in the Projects, Engineering and Construction Practice of the Hogan Lovells Hong Kong office, Joyce has significant experience in a range of commercial and contentious matters, including litigation and arbitration proceedings, with a particular focus on construction disputes.