Sentences with phrase «successful initiatives by»

Read the full COACHE benchmark report on tenure and promotion, with examples of successful initiatives by member institutions.

Read the full COACHE benchmark report on teaching, with examples of successful initiatives by member institutions.

Recycling and green energy technologies in the food and beverage industry, left, CST's SFC Screen Extractor, centre, and a successful initiative by Goulburn Mulwaree Council involving medium pressure ultraviolet (UV) disinfection supplied by CST Wastewater Solutions for its effluent irrigation scheme, which has conserved potable water.

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Growing public acceptance of marijuana, highlighted by a slew of successful legalization initiatives, is encouraging investment.

This successful initiative was inspired by other businesses that have already successfully implemented exercise - at - work programs much more inspiring than ours.

NACO is proud to publish its first whitepaper with the objective to promote policy initiatives intended to increase the number of successful startup companies, jobs, and wealth creation by supporting early stage capital investment provided by Angel investors in Canada.

These risks and uncertainties include: fluctuations in U.S. and international economies and currencies, our ability to preserve, grow and leverage our brands, potential negative effects of material breaches of our information technology systems if any were to occur, costs associated with, and the successful execution of, the company's initiatives and plans, the acceptance of the company's products by our customers, the impact of competition, coffee, dairy and other raw material prices and availability, the effect of legal proceedings, and other risks detailed in the company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the «Risk Factors» section of Starbucks Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended September 28, 2014.

If Fitbit can eventually return to growth and profitability, driven by successful smartwatch products and its healthcare initiatives, the stock has a tremendous amount of potential upside.

Some such experiences and actions can be seen in the successful action to re-conquer the earth by the farmers in Brazil or Madagascar, the initiatives for education and rural training of women in Senegal or in the exemplary battles of the South - Korean workers who demonstrated the possibility of constituting efficient inter-professional trade union organisations in the so - called emerging countries.

The last year was an incredibly active, busy and successful year for OUMC, which began with a huge intake of new climbers, continued with successful new initiatives like mountaineering - focused first aid courses and joint meets with Oxford University Cave Club and which culminated in an expedition by OUMC members that was noted in the international climbing and exploration media.

Powered by a sense of autonomy that comes from a successful passage through the «terrible two's,» they take initiative and launch themselves to the doors of kindergarten full of industriousness, ready to show the world — and themselves — what they can do.

The Commission could further this goal by three means: conducting and publishing research into what initiatives are successful at increasing political participation; advising public bodies and institutions regarding how to better democratise their functioning; and critically, by providing resources and capacity - building to facilitate local, civil society - led initiatives that aim to increase broad - based levels of participation or deliberation in political decision - making.

They also point to initiatives here in New York, like the successful passage of on - bill financing, a major goal of the left - leaning Working Families Party which was touted by former President Bill Clinton during a trip to Albany last month.

The initiative was inspired by such successful land bank efforts as 13 Chambers Street in Newburgh.

To do so, governments can imitate initiatives used by successful businesses.

Though successful when applied to well - defined technological goals such as building rockets or decoding the genome, are big - budget initiatives run by a small group of scientists and administrators the best way to develop something as basic as a new understanding of the human brain?

The initiative — originally launched by Lincolnshire County Council — has already proved successful following a Metropolitan Police pilot in Merton borough before Christmas, which has so far seen more than 50 % of venues on the borough sign up and continues to grow.

SchellingPoint's mission is to enable organizations to accelerate their progress by rapidly designing and implementing highly successful initiatives.

According to the site, taking initiative, being yourself and keeping your account active by updating your information and photos consistently are the keys to successful online dating.

Curtatone cited Shape Up Somerville as a successful city initiative that achieved an ambitious goal — reducing childhood obesity — by partnering with all aspects of the community, including schools, local restaurants, farmers» markets, and transportation.

iRail, Innovative Rail, is a successful initiative from Learn by Design who seek to engage students with science and technology in practical ways.

According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»

Walcott promised to borrow instructional methods from successful middle school charters with this initiative, but even charter organizations like KIPP, which began by serving middle school kids, are having second thoughts about the challenges such isolation from other children create, and has been building «clusters» of schools that include early grades and high schoolers.

«Every successful educational initiative of which I'm aware aims at strengthening personal bonds by building strong systems of support in the schools,» he wrote.

Started in early 2011, the Program's first two initiatives are the New College Leadership Project, which works to create and strengthen programs that recruit and train college leaders who are driven by — and capable of — substantially improving student success, and the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, which strives to reward and shine a spotlight on community colleges that deliver exceptional student results and stimulate replication of successful campus practices.

Some of the organizers behind Education Forward have some clever ideas about how to fund the online courses a student might take, for example — by offering 50 percent of funding to the provider up - front for enrollment, 25 percent for the student passing the course, and the last 25 percent upon successful passage of the state final exam — but this idea, which moves the focus to student outcomes, isn't codified explicitly in the initiative (although the notion of competency - based learning is, which might lead to such an outcomes - based funding system).

The association recently released its revised and updated publication, National Directory of Successful Strategies for the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Teachers, which includes numerous minority recruitment strategies plus state - by - state initiatives.

The shared tips will help create successful custom eLearning initiatives for corporate training by aligning learning with business goals.

The Education Redesign Lab launched the By All Means initiative in May 2016 and convened a national audience in support of a more effective systems for educating all children so that they are prepared to be successful in a complex, 21st century society.

Successful initiatives have been created by organizations as varied as school districts, United Ways, universities, funders, local governments, and other community - based organizations.

Institutional theories take a different view, arguing that schools (like other major social service sectors) are so constrained by public expectations that they have limited options for becoming very different.137 Public agencies that have limited autonomy, owing to extensive public oversight, find it difficult to develop their own policies and initiatives for change.138 This does not mean that successful leadership activity in schools is impossible, but it does not come easily.

The building is scheduled to be replaced by the year 2000 — the result of a successful bond initiative.

Two initiatives, codeveloped by teachers and funded by the Gates Foundation, point the way to successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

The best indicator of whether an education initiative is successful is, obviously, classroom achievement by the students involved.

Spurred by a successful pilot program last year at McPolin Elementary, a public - private partnership at the Park City School District has established an initiative to help out dyslexic youngsters and other students who struggle with reading.

Funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Council is implementing the Leader - to - Leader: Sharing Successful Business Practices initiative in 18 schools in Miami - Dade County.

«Engaging Families» was part of the «Keeping Kids on Track» initiative, a broader effort by United Way to ensure that young people graduated from high school prepared to lead successful lives.

If the South Hunterdon initiative is successful, we will reduce the number of statewide school districts by three.

She also cited as successful a series of new initiatives, including experiments with longer school days and home visits by teachers.

These and other successful initiatives include Early College High Schools, STEM Academies, the PUENTE program, the AVID program, IDRA's Coca - Cola Valued Youth Program, along with many others as described by the Educational Policy Institute (EPI) and the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC).

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Efforts undertaken by the SFSPCA were part of a spate of citywide initiatives aimed at ending euthanasia of healthy or otherwise treatable animals, and were so successful that some began to call it the first «no - kill» city in America.

Hyatt Regency Maui recently received additional recognition for its sustainability initiatives, including the Hawaii Green Business Program Award, the Best Eco / Green Hotel Smart Stars Award by Successful Meetings, and the Resort Energy Ventures Sustainability Award.

Gamelab spun off two successful companies: Gamestar Mechanic, an online site funded by the MacArthur Foundation that lets kids create games; and the Institute of Play, a nonprofit initiative that looks at the intersection of games and learning and which recently launched Quest to Learn, a New York City school using play as the model for learning.

Game Republic is joining the Made in Creative UK initiative which is aiming to raise more awareness of the fantastic and successful UK games sector, and is also backed by other organisations including UKIE, TIGA, NESTA and the Department for Culture Media & Sport.

Given this current panorama of growing private initiatives, The Private Museum of the Future, published by the same editors of 2015's successful Museum of the Future, tackles this central issue in museology and contemporary society.

It highlights the breadth and scope of Qatar Museums» offer by drawing on work from its successful artists in residence programme, its Year of Culture activity and other initiatives undertaken by the organisation.

One of the most important and ambitious schemes ever launched by the Art Fund, the initiative allocated # 1 million each to five successful partnerships between UK museums and contemporary art organisations, to fund the creation of collections of international contemporary art over a period of five years, thus encouraging a radical change in the scale and ambition of contemporary art collecting in the UK.

Just in case you doubted the power of money to frustrate attempts to rein in greenhouse gases, read Margot Roosevelt's news story in the Los Angeles Times about the successful effort, paid for mainly by oil companies, to put an initiative on the fall ballot that could suspend the state's pioneering, and troubled, climate law, Assembly Bill 32.

The ultimate aim is a national declaration of Climate Emergency with its ability to unlock all the required policy changes and funds for a rapid climate emergency response, but local councils can start the ball rolling by demonstrating successful climate emergency initiatives at the local level.