Sentences with phrase «skilled advocates in»

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Sibyl is also the cofounder of Black Female Founders and the President of DC Web Women (DCWW), one of the longest - running tech nonprofits for women in D.C, which supports and advocates for women and girls in technology by providing a community in which they can develop and promote their leadership, technical and professional skills.

Canada, an advocate of youth empowerment and gender equality, is in a good position to assist young and female Vietnamese entrepreneurs in gaining skills and knowledge for capacity building and improving the competitiveness of their enterprises via innovation and technology.

He is also a passionate advocate for youth, promoting the benefits of work - integrated learning and supporting the development of RBC Future Launch, a 10 - year, $ 500 million commitment to help young people build the skills and capabilities required to succeed in a changing world.

Skill or LuckElm Partners co-founder and chief executive Victor Haghani, an advocate of index investing, asserts that the degree of confidence people have in their ability to pick «super-talented» fund managers is «surprising.»

This view has been advocated with great skill by Professor C. H. Dodd, first in an article entitled «The Framework of the Gospel Narrative,» published in The Expository Times (June, 1932), and then in his books, The Apostolic Preaching (1936) and History and the Gospel (1938).

Karen's knowledge, skills and leadership are a valuable addition as we advocate on behalf of the America's leading beverage companies in a constantly evolving and increasingly challenging political environment.»

In order to develop those skills, advocates say, students need opportunities to practice them in schooIn order to develop those skills, advocates say, students need opportunities to practice them in schooin school.

These experiences motivated Penny to establish Believe Midwifery Services, LLC where she felt she could utilize her clinical skills to create a practice that rivals the best in the state, while being a strong advocate for childbearing families.

As a registered nurse and midwife, homebirthed mother of three, breastfeeding advocate, In making decisions about how to raise my children I read widely, asked advice from a range of professionals, some being medical doctors some being highly trained, skilled midwives.

By encouraging those who still advocate corporal punishment to see the facts behind reasons parents today think corporal punishment works and breaking down those reasons to see why those reasons don't stand up to facts and examination, we can protect the most vulnerable members of society: children, who should be taught how to behave correctly on their own and develop the skills to regulate their own behavior so that they don't need to be constantly disciplined and who should not be physically hurt so that they obey at that particular moment, without learning how to regulate themselves in the future.

Having experienced firsthand how beautifully a dedicated and highly skilled midwife can facilitate birth at home, Palo Alto native, Heather has become an active and well known advocate for reproductive freedom and choice in Ireland.

• Helping mothers develop skills and techniques to ensure breastfeeding goes well • Providing expertise in the management of breastfeeding challenges • Training other healthcare workers using current evidence based knowledge • Collaborating with other healthcare workers to meet the family's needs • Investigating and participating in research • Educating policy makers on the economic and health benefits of breastfeeding • Advocating for services to support breastfeeding

This is a skill set that many lactation support staff and advocates find challenging; but fortunately resources in social advocacy marketing and communication are available.

The mansplaining... it makes me wonder if there are NCB advocates who recognize their own debating skills are poor and are sending in their husbands to debate and distract instead.

The School Food Institute gives school food service professionals and childhood nutrition advocates the in - depth training, operational skills, and strategic vision necessary to make school food fresh, healthy, and sustainable.

I am a passionate advocate of employers investing in training, skills and talent development to ensure the UK's economy can attract and develop the broadest range of talent.»

And yet, by the time he threw himself into the crowded field of candidates running for mayor of New York in 2013, he had spent more than a decade honing his political skills, serving two terms on the City Council and one as public advocate, and he managed to outmaneuver higher - profile opponents like Christine Quinn, the New York City Council speaker (and Mayor Bloomberg's all - but - anointed successor).

Founded in 1935, NACo brings county officials together to advocate with a collective voice on national policy, exchange ideas and build new leadership skills, pursue transformational county solutions, enrich the public's understanding of county government and exercise exemplary leadership in public service.

A barrister / advocate / trial lawyer should theoretically at least have some grounding in public speaking and debating - I don't believe this is a skill that is trained in political scientists.

Mr Gormey advocated proper planning and deliberate efforts to train the youth in employable skills, in order to turn the fortunes of the country in the right direction.

Dr. Alvin Ponder (3A)-- hailing the Co-Op Section of the Bronx, in addition to be a guest columnist for BW, he has Strong Community Relations and Emergency Management skills: Advocated Affordable Health Care Act, wrote «King Convenes Obamacare Forum,» City News, 16,000 circulation; Community Activist.

Recognizing that children and teens are the future leaders of our communities, she advocates for imaginative expression in youth as a means of enhancing their social - emotional behaviors, communicative and public speaking aptitude, and community - building skills.

«As the Council begins our Executive Budget hearings on May 6th, we will continue to strongly push for critical investments that will greatly expand employment opportunities for our young people by increasing the number of year round and summer youth jobs, advocating for vital legal services and workforce development skills to support our growing immigrant population and fighting to combat food insecurity in our City,» they said.

«The clinic will also continue to train the next generation of veteran advocates with the skills they need to serve our veterans in their practices or in pro bono service.»

Dr. Tisch said that among the things she was proudest of was creating alternative pathways to graduation for students who wanted to focus on the arts or a career - related skill, advocating for undocumented students to receive tuition assistance at city and state colleges, and pushing for state oversight of the troubled East Ramapo school district in Rockland County.

Even if the IOM recommendations are fully and effectively implemented, this timing could make it hard to assess the impact of the changes on trainees» career outcomes — whether the skill set IOM is advocating create new research leaders or scientists who struggle for jobs in a marketplace that still values more traditional standards of success.

While the position demands either scientific background or problem - solving skills in a big bureaucracy, this advocate said, «he's not either of those.»

Two advocates who worked on this legislation — Congressman Sherwood Boehlert and Senator Joe Lieberman — argued that the nation's academic institutions have not produced enough skilled scientists and felt that the country needed to meet the inevitable demand for a larger scientific workforce in the future.

Advocates say that by having control over what goes in their mouths, babies learn to regulate their food intake, refine motor skills and perhaps even become more adventurous eaters.

► In this week's Science editorial, Joanne Padrón Carney, the director of government relations at AAAS, wrote about the relationships among science, advocacy, and policy, and outlined the skills scientists need to become more effective advocates for science — namely, communication skills and knowledge about how science policy is made.

A lawyer who made a fortune as an early investor in the telecommunications firm Nextel and other high - tech startups, Warner has long advocated increasing the number of H - 1B skilled temporary worker visas and «stapling a green card to every Ph.D.» as ways of encouraging innovation.

Georgia CORE aims to increase the skills and competencies of the cancer research workforce; raise awareness about the opportunities and benefits of clinical trials; incorporate the perspectives of patients and survivors into clinical cancer research; advocate for clinical trials financing, regulatory improvement and resource development; promote access to and enrollment in clinical trials; and stimulate dialogue and collaboration among multi-disciplinary cancer researchers.

Ray has created his own unique fitness style focused on developing fitness skills and he advocates on the importance of not just training your body but of also putting in the hard work on your overall self every single day.

Koontz says she sees big dividends in the hands - on approach to learning that Journey North advocates, from better writing to deeper investigation skills.

As a teacher of many SEN pupils, Hopper is deeply interested in ensuring high quality teaching of communication skills, and advocating the importance of the spoken word.

«That's why so many dyslexia advocates in particular have been calling for this type of skills check to be put in place at an early level for many, many years because they know that you can get much, much earlier identi cation, intervention, and therefore assistance to help ensure that the early years of a child's education are successful which then enables them to be successful for the rest of their schooling.»

To facilitate and support teachers in the implementation of the Australian Curriculum: Science, ASTA strongly advocates for a greater focus be placed on up - skilling teachers on the knowledge, skills & understandings that are required to teach and assess the new curriculum and senior courses of study.

Instruction in cursive has been declining since the 1970s, and many teacher education programs don't address handwriting instruction, thereby isolating the skill from its most natural advocates.

She now feels prepared to enter the classroom and is currently seeking a teaching position in the Boston area where she will be able to incorporate lessons of social justice into the science curriculum and work with students in developing skills to advocate for positive change in their communities.

Partner Build Grow, a new action guide from the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools, helps administrators, civic leaders, program directors, and other advocates develop plans to maintain and strengthen programs that give children the emotional and behavioral skills they need to thrive.

But if you look at the data in Amazon books, you will see that the bestselling books about the Common Core are «skills - centric» ones that claim to prepare teachers for the new language arts standards by advocating techniques for «close reading» and for mastering «text complexity» as though such skills were the main ones for understanding a text no matter how unfamiliar a student might be with the topic of the text.

First, we offer three curricular strands for our Ed.M program: a Counseling Strand to prepare you for a career in school counseling; a Prevention Practice strand that prepares you to work in or out of schools as a teacher, youth development advocate; and a Prevention Researcher strand that prepares you develop research skills to be used in a variety of settings.

Increase target women knowledge about gender issues and human rights with improvement in their skills to advocate their rights and to participate in decision making, it will also has impact the children through the work with teachers and within schools - as well as the whole community through public event community mobilization and so on.

Increasing starting salaries in teaching has been advocated by, among others, the National Education Association, the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, and the authors of a heavily publicized 2007 report by McKinsey & Company on the characteristics of the world's most effective school systems.

As a serious games and simulations developer and advocate, one of the common questions that I have come across is «Do the skills you learn in a simulated environment hold up in the real world?».

Instead of the party line, Russian educators are now advocating for a student - centeredcurriculum using project - based learning that has much in common withthe global movement toward twenty - first - century skills.

Granted, the boost to starting salaries is not as great as some advocates would like — the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has called for starting salaries of $ 45,000 — but remember that this new schedule is based on the arbitrary decision to reward credentials that improve test scores by 1 percent of a standard deviation with a 1 percent boost in salary.

In line with what these groups have long advocated, the ISLLC standards assess individual beliefs rather than knowledge or skills.

Much like the SEL Thriver, the SEL Advocate was a teacher who felt comfortable teaching SEL and who wanted to further improve their skills in teaching SEL.

Year 7 - Term 1 - Basic Drawing Skills Scheme of Work / Practice Makes Permanent (Literacy Bank) / Assessment and Feedback Materials This resource has been developed in response to the Knowledge Rich Curriculum advocated by teachers, researchers and administrators who have inspired the Free School Movement.